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COMPILATION /X^-Z. 



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NOW IN FOECE, 

PUBLIC EDUCATION, 



By THOMAS ^V- CONWAY, 

SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBT.IO EDUCATION. 



As this lite is a preparation for eternity, so is ediicatiou a preparatiou for this lif*!, aiul tliat 
education alone is valuable that answers these great primary object?). — Bishop Shon'. 



NEW OELEANS: 

PRINTED AT THE OFFICE OF THE EEPUBLICAN, 9i CAMP SXIJEIil: 

1870. tf» 



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THOMAS W. CONWAY, State Superintendent of Education. 

DIVISION SUPEEIXTENDENTS. 

R. C. RICHARDSON, ----- First Division. 

E. S. STODDARD, ------ Second Division. 

R. K. DIOSSY, ------- Third Division. 

JAS. McCLEERY, ------ Fourth Division. 

R. C. WYLY, ------- Fifth Division. 

J. B. CARTER, ------- Sixth Division. 



CONTENTS OF COMPILATION. 



Introduction 3 

Act to Kegulate Public Education — 

State Board of Education > 5 

State Superintendent of Public Education 9 

School Districts and Boards of School Directors 14 

Duties of District officers — 

Presidents of District Boards 16 

Secretaries of District Boards 16 

Treasurers of District Boards 18 

Qualifications and duties of Teachers 22 

Of the Division Superintendents 7 

School Divisions 5 

Duties of Auditor of Public Accounts 22 

District Ward Meetings 19 

General Provisions 23 

Public Schools in the city of New Orleans 30 

Index to School Laws 37 

From Act No. 321, of March 15, 1855 — 

Duty of Superintendent in regard to School Lands 45 

Free School Fund 45 

Duties of Parish Treasurers as to School Lands, etc 46 

Duties of District Directors and Parish Treasurers as to unsold 

School Lands. 4{^ 

Disposition of proceed^ of Lands, etc 49 

From Act No. 182, of March 19, 1857— 

Free School Fund in State Treasury 49 

Act for compensation of Parish Treasurers (33 of 1859.), ..... 50 

Act for collection of notes (217 of 1859) 60 

Act for relief of purchasers (83 of ^1866) , , ,..,,.,.,.,, 50 

^ct exempting property of Public Schools from seizure (151 of 

P^5). .,,,.<,, ,. ...,,,...,...., U' 



vi CONTENTS OF COMPILATION. 

Laws Peoviding tor the Free Education of Teachers — page. 

Normal Department in High School (153 of 1859) 51 

Act Supplementary to Act No. 153 of 1859 (155 of 1860) 53 

State Seminary of Learning (131 of 186*1) 54 

Free Education of Indigent Young Men — 

In Centenary College, Jackson, Louisiana. (116 and 271 of 1855) 55 

In University of Louisiana, Ncav Orleans (320 of 1855) 56 

Act for free transportation of cliildren (17 of 1868) 56 

Educational buildings exempt from taxation (114 of 1869) 51 

Rules and Keg^ilations for the government of Schools 58 



CONTENTS OF APPENDIX. 



School Fund in State Treasury— ■" page. 

Current School Fund 69 

Free School Accumulating Fund , , . . 69 

State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy 70 

Seminary Fund 14 

University of Louisiana _. 76 

Institutions of Learning generally 16 

Miscellaneous appropriations for benefit of Education 77 

Constitution of 1868, Title VIL— Public Education 71 

United States Department of Education 79 

Circular Letter by Commissioner of Education 80 

Schedule of Information, etc 80 



INTRODUCTION^. 



Special attention of all officers charged with the execution of the 
provisions of these laws, and all teachers and heads of families 
generfilly, is invited to this compilation. All existing- provisions of 
these laws, that are now in operation in the State, have been care- 
iuUy preserved in the text, and, to avoid confusion and misconception, 
care has been taken to exclude therefrom all sections, paragraphs 
and clauses of the statutes that have been modified or repealed by 
subsequent enactments. 

In this compilation appear the "Act to Kegulate Public Education 
in the State of Louisiana, and to raise Revenue for the support of the 
same," No. G of extra session of 1870, and all. antecedent acts and 
parts of acts not repealed thereby; to all of which ready reference 
can be had by consulting the accompanying Contents. 

In the Appendix will be found title vii. of the Constitution of 
1868, relating to Public Education, on which the provisions of Act 
No. 6, extra session of 1870, are founded; also, a brief abstract of 
such provisions of the laws as relate to the creation, preservation and 
present condition of the respective School Funds in the State Trea- 
sury; a complete text of the law, as now in force, for the government 
of the State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, with refer- 
ence to the act relative to the University of Louisiana; and a memo- 
randa of tlie amount appropriated by the State since 1866, for the 
promotion of education. 

The "Act (of the United States Congress) to establish a Depart- 
ment of Education," approved March 10, 1867, will also be found in 
the Appendix, with copy of circular letter issued by the Commissioner 
of Education, and a "Schedule of information sought respecting 
Systems, Institutions, and Agencies of Education." 

Division Superintendents will see that a copy of this pamphlet is 
placed in the hands of all persons above enumerated; and Secreta- 
ries of District Boards will make it their especial care to furnish, in 
their periodical reports as required by law, complete and accurate 



INTRODUCTION. 



statements of all such matters as come witliin their districts. If, in 
any instance, positiA^e statistics and facts cannot be obtained, esti- 
mated reports will be given by the Secretaries, according to their 
best available means of information. 

The cordial aid and co-operation of School Officers, Supervisors, 
and Teachers of Educational Institutions, and all other good citizens 
desirous of seeing the State of Louisiana ranked in intellectual ad- 
vantages, beside any of her sister commonwealths, are earnestly 
solicited to thus vindicate her honor and dignity. 

All necessary information for the promotion of this object not 
contained in this pamphlet, will be promptly furnished, on receipt 
of communications, by the Compiler. 

THOMAS W. CONWAY, 
Superintendent of Public Education. 



A.ISr ^.(..^T 



TO 



REGULATE PUBLIC EDUCATIOI 

IN PHE STy\TE OF LOUISIANA, 



AND TO EAISE REVENUE FOR THE SUPPORT OF THE SAME, 
APPROVED MARCH 16, 1870, WITH INDEX THERETO. 



PEEPAEED BY 

THOMAS W. CONWAY, 

SUPEBINTKNDENT OF PUBLIC EDUCATION. 



To which is appended Rules and Regulations for the Government of liif Sfhools 
by the State Board of Education. 



SPECIAL NOTICE. 



A copy of this pamphlet will be furnished to each raenibei* of the 
State Board of Education, each Division Superintendent, each Dis- 
trict Board of School Directors, the President or clerk of each 
Police Jury, to Parish Treasurers and State Tax Collectors, District 
Attorneys, and all other ofl&cers and citizens needing information as 
to the school laws, who should preserve them for reference. 

The Division Superintendents are especially charged with the 
distribution of these pamphlets throughout their respective division-^. 
Such persons as need copies and are not furtiished wiih the same 
before tlu; first day of August next, are requested to address their 
proper Division Superintendent, or this office, and they will be 
promptly supplied- 

THOS. W. CONWAY, 

State Superintendent of Public Education. 
New Orleans, May 15, 1870. 



Nil. (J. — Extra Session.] 



TO 



REdULATE PUBLIC EDUCATIOxN 



STATE OF LOUISIANA AND CITY OF NEW ORLEANS, AND 
TO RAISE A REVENUE FOR THAT rURPOSE. 



Section 1. Be it enacted by the, Senate and Houi^e of Rep- 
resentatives of the State of Louisiana, in General Assembly Board or Eduua.- 
convened, That the common schools of the State, and such 
High and Normal schools as n)a_y be established and 
maintained by the State, shall be under the management 
of a State Board of Education, whicli shalP consist of the 
Superintendent of Public Education aud of six membeis, 
to be appointed as is hereinafter provided. 

Sec. 2. Be if. fvrtlicr enacted, ed:.. That lor the purpose 
of regulating" public education in free schools, the State scuooiDmaious 
tihali be divided into six divisions. All that part of the 
l^'i^'St Congressional Distiict outsi<;lc of the city of Nev/ 
prleans yhall form the First Divission. All that part of 
phe i^econd Congressional District out'^idc of the city o[ 
I^ew Orleans shall farm the S<'Oon(:i I3i\isiou. 'I'Iig 
J'lurd, Fourth and Eil'th GQ4grc.-:5,siojial Districts bhall 
iorm the Third, Fourtii ai>d Fifth DiTibiona, ancf tho pity 
of New Orleans shall constitute the ^ixth Diviiisinii, to ha 
known as the Di>ision nf New Qrleans. 

Skc. 3. Be it farther ryuMni, dv., That immediately 
upon the passay-e of this act, the Governor shall, on the Nomination an^ 
nomination of tho State Suiicrintendent of Education, oiviMJou snp?>-i 
HppoJTit ]5y a?|4 Wit'^l t'lie fidyjco. ai?a oonscut of the Sen- ■ ■ - 



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salaries. 



.-iupermten 
president of 
board 



FoTvsis and 
'Inties. 



Quorum. 



ate, one Division Superintendent for each of the Divisions 
hereinbefore named, said person to be a resident of the 
division for wliich he is appointed. The Division Super- 
intendents so appointed and chosen shall take the oath 
required by State <ifficers, and shall hold their offices for 
three years, and until their successors are duly appointed 
or chosen and cjualitied. The Division Superintendent 
for the city of New Orleans shall receive a salary of tvro 
thousand five hundred dollars ($2500) per auniira. and 
each other Division Superintendent sh;ill each receive a 
salary <if two thousand live hundred dollars (S250U) p<:r 
annum, payable quarterly liy the Stale Treasurer, nut 
of the public school fund, upon his own warrant. 

Sec. -i. Be it further enacted, etc., Tliat the six. Division 
dent Superintendents tshal], with the Superintendent of Edu- 
cation, constitute a State Board of Education. The 
State Superintendent shall be ex officio president of the 
board, and its executive officer. The board so constitu- 
ted shall hold one regular annual meeting' in New Or- 
leans, at the office of the Superintendent of Public Edu- 
cation, coinpienciug- the first Monday in January. The 
Superintendent of Public Education may call special 
meetings upon the written request of any Hve members. 

Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That the State Board 
of Education, so constituted and organized, shall have the 
power to recommend a uniform series of text books, and 
shall make all needful rules and regulations for the gov- 
ernment of the pubhc schools throughout the State, sub- 
ject to the provisions of this act. It shall be the duty of 
said Board of Education to make a general regulation 
whereby all schools established under this law, shall be, 
according to the provisions of the constitution, open to 
all children of this State between the ages of .«ix and 
twenty-one years, without distinction of race, color or 
previous fondition, and in ~ case of failing to pass such 
regulations, the members of said board shall forfeit the 
salary allowed them. A majority of the board shall form 
a ouoruni The board is hereb}'" constituted a body cor- 
porate and politic in law, with power to sue and be sued. 



The president of the board shall be the officer upon whoui 
citation or legal process may be served. The board may 
employ counsel. 

DIVISION SUPERINTENDENTS. 

?Ec. G. Be it further enacted, etc., Tliat the Division 
Snperinteiidents shall have general supervision of all Powers of 

' . Division ir.iippi' 

laablic. schools within their respective divisions, subject iuteudents. 
tt> nil rules and regulations passed by the State Board of 
EdiK';itio]i. They shall examine and certify to the qual- 
iticati< ms of all applicants to teach within their respective 
divisioijs, as hereinafter provided, unless such applicants 
hold a certificate of qualification from the State Superin- 
tendent. They shall receive and transmit all reports 
from the Board of School Directors to the State Super- 
intendent. 

Sec. 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Division 
Superintendent shall, once in each three months, at such nuties. 
place as he . may desig'nate in his division, not to be a 
less number than one [for] each two parishes, meet all 
those who are desirous of passing an examination, and 
for the traijsactiun of all other business within his juris- 
diction, in some tiuitable room at the seat of justice of 
the parish, or ut any other place, as occasion may 
require, and shall notify the parish judge of the place of 
meeting. 

Sec. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Division 
Superintendent may revoke the certificate of any teacher May revoke 

•If 1-1 ini ■ ■ -• -t certificates. 

m the parish lor any reasons which would have justified 
the withholding- thereof when the same was given. And 
the Board of School Directors, upon sufficient cause 
shown, may dismiss any teacher from any school in the 
district. 

Sec. 9. Be it further enacted, etc.. That on or befoi'e 
the fifth day of October in each year, he shall make a Kepoits, 
report to ihe State Board of Education, containing a 
digest of the reports to him by the Secretaries of the 
District Boards, and such other matters as he shall be 
directed to report by the said Secretary, and such as he 



Penalty. 



Further duties 



leaehers' 
Institute. 



Teaohers' 
Assopiations. 



himself may think pertinent and material, and esppciaUy 
siieh as will show the condition of the schools under his 
rliarge. He shall also suggest such improvements in the 
S3'stem as he may thinL- judic-lons. He shall also^ by 
the fifth day of October in eneli year, file with the 
Eecorder of the parish an abstract of the number of 
youths between the ages of six aad twenty-one years, 
residing in each ward and schoul disti-ict within his 
parish. 

tSlioald he fail to make either of the reports required 
in tLiis section, he shall forfeit to the school fund of his 
district the sum of tlfty ddllarn, and shall, besides, be 
liable for all damages caused by such neglect. 

Skc. 10. Be il farther enacted, etc.. That he shall at 
all times conform to the instructions of the State Board 
of Education as Irt matters within their jurisdiction. 
He shall serve as tfie organ of communication between 
the State Board of Education and the Superintend- 
ent of Public Education and District Board of School 
Directors. He shall transmit to the District Board of 
School Directors or teachers all blanks, circulars and 
other communications which are to them directed, and 
rshall entertain and decide all appeals taken fi-om the 
decisions of District Boards of School Directors. 

He shall organize and conduct, once in each year, for 
his own division, at such times as, after conference with 
the Superintendent of Public Education, may be desig- 
nated, a teachers' institute, at some central locality in 
the division, to which access is convenient, and where 
the teachers will receive the encouragement of hospi- 
tiility. 

In this work the Superintendent will be aided by a 
professor fi'om the Normal school, or by some practical 
teacher appointed by the State Superintendent. 

He shall also encourage and assist at teachers' associ- 
ations, to be convened four times each year, if practica- 
ble, on the last Saturday of some month in each quarter, 
in each parish or in several parishes united, urging the 
attendance of the teachers of the same, for the purpose 
of mutual conference and instruction in their duties. 



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He shall also report the inimber of private .sch(^ols, 
academies and colleges in the division; number of pnpils, ijenorts oi 

pvivntM schools. 

male and female; and all other information, in such form 
as the State Superintendent may prescribe, so as to pre- 
sent a full view of their educational facilities. 

He shall perform such duties and make such reports, 
in addition to those required in this act, as the State 
"Board of Education may determine. 

, SUPEEINTPJNDENT OF PUBLIC KDUCATION. 

Sec. 11. Be it fihrther enacted, etc., That an office 
shall be provided for the Superintendent of Public Edu- ofxice ot siijifi 

inteiJcUau. 

cation at the seat ox government, and to cost not moj"e 
than eij^ht hundred dollars j)er year (payable out of the 
public school fund on his own warrant), in which he 
shall file all papers, reports and jjublic documents trans- 
mitted to him by the Division Superintendents of the 
several divisions, and by boards of directors, each year 
separately, and hold the same in readiness to be exhib- 
ited to the Governor, or to a committee from either house 
of the General Assembly, at any time when required, 
and shall require to be kept a fair record of all matters 
pertaining to his office. 

Sec. 12. Be it further enacted, etc., That he shall Eeportsor 
make a report to the General Assembly at each session ®'"'^°°' '■tiwren, 
thereof, which shall embrace — 

First — A statement of the condition of the public 
schools throughout the State, the number of scholars 
attending in the various parishes and towns bet.veen the 
ages of six and twenty-one years, and the condition of 
the public school libraries. 

Second — A statement of all rules and regulations 
adopted by the State Board, and whatever suggestions of rui^s, 
he may deem it expedient to offer upon the efficient 
working of 'this law. 

Sec. 13. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Superin- 
tendent of Public Education shall appoint a secretary, secrptary of the 
and shall prescribe the duties of his office, not inconsis- tende'iit^^"'^ 
tent with this act. He shall receive for his salary the 
sum of three thousand dollars ($3000) per annum, pay- 



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General super- 
Vision. 



Superintendent 
to meet the 



able in monthly installments out of the public school 
funds, by the Treasurer of the State, upon the warrant of 
the Superintendent of Public Education. He will take 
tlie usual oath of office. 

Sec. 14. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Superin- 
tendent of PubHc Education shall be charged with the 
general supervision of all the Division Superintendents, 
and all the common, high or normal schools of the State ; 
and he shall see that the school system is, as early as 
practicable, carried into effect, and put in uniform opera- 
tion. AVith a general view to these special duties, he 
Division Super- shall meet the Division Superintendents at least once in 

mtendents. ■*■ 

each year, in each division, at such time and place as lie 
may appoint, giving due notice of such meeting; and it is 
hereby made the duty of the said Division Superintend- 
ents to attend each meeting, the object of which shall be 
to acciunulate valuable facts relative to common schools, 
to compare views, discuss principles, and in general to 
listen to all communications and suggestions, and to en- 
ter in all discussions relative to the compensation of teach- 
ers, their qualifications, branches taught, method of in- 
struction, text books, division libraries, apparatus, and 
all other matters embraced in the common school system. 
He shall visit such schools as he may have it in his power 
t() do, and witness the manner in which they are conduct- 
ed. His traveling expenses incurred in such visit shall be 
23aid by the State Treasurer out of the public school fund 
upon his warrant; provided, That the same shall not exceed 
the sum of one thousand dollars in any one year. The Su- 
perintendent of Public Education shall cause as many 
copies of this act, and all other school acts in force, with 
the forms, regulations and instructions herein contem- 
plated thereto annexed, to be from time to time printed 
and distributed among the Division Superintendents, as 
he shall deem expedient, directing the latter to distribute 
the same among the several school divisions of the State. 
He shall also prepare, and cause to be distributed to ihe 
several Division Superintendents, a form of certificate in 
blank, to be granted to teachers; also, all other blank 



Traveling 
expenses. 



Distribution of 
School docu- 
ments. 



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forms necessary to be used in carrjiiig out this act and 

all other acts. He shall, annually, oti the first day of KeporttJthe 

Auditor. 

January, report to the Auditor of Pubhc Accounts the 
number of persons in each parish of the State between 
the ages of six and twenty --one years. He shall make a to General 
report to tlie General Assembly and the State Board of "'" ' 
Education at each session thereof, which shall embrace — 
■ First A statement of the condition of the common 
school di-\i!=iiou(s therein, the number of schools in the statement a 

Schools and 

State, th(! number of scholars between six and twenty-one sciioiara. 
years of age, and also the number in each parish who 
liavo attended school the previous year, as returned by 
the several Division Superintendents, the number of books 
in the division libraries, and the value of all apparatus in 
the schools. 

Second — Such plans as he may have matured for the 
management and improvement of the common school Plana, 
fund, and for the better and more perfect organization 
and elftciency of common schools. 

Thh'd — All such matters and things relating to his 
office, and to the common schools, as he shall deem expe- 
dient to communicate. 

Fourth — He shall cause his report to be printed, and 
shall present five hundi*ed copies thereof to each body ou i-rinted report. 
or before the second day of their session, for distribution. 

Sec. 15. Be it further enacted, etc., That whenever 
reasonable assurance shall bo given by the Division Su- teacher.-;- 
j>erintendent of any division to the Superintendent of 1°^*^*^"^'^. 
Public Education, that a number of not less than thirty 
teachers desire to assemble for the purpose of holding a 
teachers' institute in said division, to remain in session 
for a i>eriod of not less than six working days, he shall 
appoint such time and place for said meeting, and such 
lectures as the said teachers shall suggest, and shall give 
due notice thereof ; and for the purpose of defraying the 
expenses of said institutes, there is hereby appropriated, 
out of any moneys in the State treasury iKjt otherwise 
appropriated, a sum not exceeding fifty dollars annually, 
for one such institute m each diviRiori held as aforesaid, 



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which the said Sitpcriutoudent of PubHc Education shall 
immediately Irausinit to tlie Division Superintendent in 
whose diA-ision tiie institute shall be held, who shall paj' 
out the same as tlie institute shall direct, provided, that 
a like sum shall be contributed by the division. 

Sec. 16. Be it farther enacted, etc., That the State Board 

Appointment of of Education shall appoint for each incorporatad city or- 
town in the State, except in the city of New Orleans, a 
Board of School Directors of not less than three nor 
more than five members, who shall exercise all the powers 
and duties herein conferred upon District Boards of Di 
rectors, and shall hold theii* offices for two years, and 
ujitil their successors shall be duly elected and qualified 
according to law. 

Sec. 17. Be it further enacted, etc., That the board 

School Board of S'Ppointed for t!ie town of Algiers shall control public 
schools in the parish of Orleans, not within the limit of 

Teffersor". the city of New Orleans. There shall be a board ap- 

pointed for that part of the parish of Jefferson on the 
right bank of the Mississippi river. There shall be a 
board appointed for the parish of Jtflersou on the left 

Provision for bank. Should any part of the said territory be here- 

vvith New Or- after incorporated within the city of New Orleans, said 
board shall have control over all territory remamiug out 
of the hmits of New Orleans, and the board for the city 
of New Orleans shall control all schools within the ter- 
ritory thus brought within the limits of the city of New 
Orleans; said boards of Algiers and Jefierson shall have 
the powei-s and duties of, and be governed by the regu- 
lation hereJJi provided for District Boards of School 
Directors in other pai;ishes. 

Sec. 18. Be it further enacted, etc., That tlie State 

.\.ppoiuiiiiciit Board shall appoint lor each parish in the State, except . 
vails cares ^-^^ parishes of Orleans t\nd Jeftersou, > board c '' school 
directors, consisting of five or more persons, who' shall 
be chosen, when practicable, from the several jury wards 
of the parish. 

Sec 19. Be it further enacted, etc., That the members 

Term oi office, of the bofti'ds of f?chool cltrectors shall hold office for 



1\vo ynars, and iinHI thpir RUcc-eRonvn are njiiioi5it('rl and 

<(Lialilied. The ttriu! >>( oftice oi' Llie clifector.s appointe'l 

undei' tins law nhnW begin ou the first day of May, 1870. 

after the approval oi Iho same, but they shall be appoiiii- 

ed and shall assume I lie dniies of their office immediatelv 

iipon the passage of thiH act. They shall take the oath oaaof cffics. 

of office, -which shall bo Hied ^Mtli the Superintendent of 

Public Education. 

Sec. 20. Bp U further enacted, dr.. That each Board 
of School Directors hereinbefore j Tovided for ig hereby incorporation of 

. . School Boards. 

•-Constituted a body corporate and politic m law, with 
powers to 8ue and be Bued. The body whall be known 
and styled " The Board of School Directors of the town, 

city or parish of ," as the case may be. The 

President of the Board shall be the officer upon whom 
citation may be served. 

Sec. 21. Be it furtJivr cnaded, etc., That the powers 
and duties of each Board of School Directors hereinbe- dutieso 
fore provided for, shall bo as follows: 

First — To elect from among their members a president, officcrr. 
secretary and treasurer. 

The treasurer shall give bonds in an amount not less 
than five thousand dollars, toi be approved by the parish Trsasurccr 
or district judge and the recorder of the parish, and a 
copy thereof to be forwarded to the Superintendent of 
Public Education, for the faithful performance of his 
duties under this act. Said bond may, from time to time, 
be increased by the order of the board or of the district 
judge, in proportion to the auiount of school funds in the 
hands of the treasurer. The board shall, from time to 
time, examine the accounts of the treasurer and settle 
ill cm. 

Second: — To appoint for each ward school district in 
their parish a board of- three district school directors. District cijrcc!-. 
Said district school directors shall hold their office for ^^^^ 
two years from the time of their appointment, and until 
their successors are duly plected or appointed and 
nualifieci 



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Schools to bs 
visitoci. 



Beport of 
delinquencies. 



Receiving and 

apportioEing 

tax. 



Ur-lavrs and 
ii-Kiilations. 



Kcccipts and 

•"CCOUUtS. 



r.sportt. 



Third — To visit aud examine the schools of the sev- 
eral districts of the parish, t'roiu time to time, and t^) 
meet and advise with the several boards of district school 
directors as occasion may require. 

Fourth — To report U) the State Board of Education, 
and to the Superintendent of Public Education, all defi- 
ciencies in the schools, oi' neglect of duty on the part of 
teachers, directors, division superintendents or other 
officers. 

Fifth — ^^^To recei\'c from the State tax collector all 
proceeds of any parish school tax levied by Ihe police 
jury in accordance with this law, and to apportion the 
same among the several ward school districts of their 
parish m proportion to the number of persons in their 
district, between the ages of six and twenty -one years. 

Sixth — To make such needful by-laws and regulations 
for their own government, not inconsistent with this law, 
as they may deem proper. 

The treasurer of the board shall receive all money on 
account of the board, and pay out the same on warrants 
signed by the president and countersigned by the secre- 
tar}', and he shall keep a correct account of all expenses 
and receipts in books provided for that purpose, which 
shall always be open for inspection. 

He shall render a monthly report to the board, and an 
annual report to the division superintendent, on or before 
the tenth day of January. 



Scliool district 
inade a body 
rorporatc. 



DUTIES OF OFFICERS OF SCHOOL BOAED. 

Sec 22. Be it further enacted, etc.. That each police jury 
or other ward that is now, or may be hereafter organized 
in the parishes of this State, is hereby declared a school 
district for all the purposes of this act. That the District 
Board of School Directors of each school district, which 
is now or may hereafter be organized in the State, is 
hereby made a body corporate by the name of the "Ward 

District of , in the parish of , and State of 

Louisiana,'"' and in that name may hold property, become 
a party to suits and contracts, and do other corporate 
acts. That the District Board of School PirectovB v^^M 



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hold tlieir reicular meetings on the first Saturday after greetings ot 

° ° " district boards. 

the first Monday in April and October in each year, and 
may hold such special and adjourned meetings as occasion 
may require. Tliej shall organize by electing from their officers. 
own number a president, treasurer and secretary. That 
the duties of the directors shall be as follows: 

Fird — To make all contracts, purchases, payments and 
sales necessary to carry out any vote of the district; carrying out tii? 
Prodded, That before erecting any school house they ^^rt." 
shall consult with the Superintendent of Public Educa- 
tion as io the most approved plan for such building. 

Second — To admit pupils not belonging to the district, 4jmit,i„„ 
as provided for in section twenty-five of this act, to their r"pii'?- 
schools, ou such terms as ihej may agree upon. 

Third — To determine the number of schools which 
shall be established, and the length of time each shall be schools™^'^ 
taught, subject to the j) revisions of section twenty-three 
of this act. 

Fourth — To fix the site for each school house, taking gi^es of school 
into consideration the wants and necessities of the people ^°^^^^- 
of each portion of the district. 

Fifth — To establish graded or union schools wherever 
they may be necessary; and they may, as occasion re- Graded and 

. union scliools, 

quires, select a person who shall nave the general super- super-»isor. 
vision of the schools in their districts, subject io rules and 
regulations of the board. 

Sixth — To determine what branches shall be taught in stxiaies. 
the schools of their district. 

Seventh — To require the secretary and treasurer each to 
give bond to the district in such penalty, and with such Bonds oi secre- 
sureties as they may determine upon, conditioned for the lu-Vj.'^"' 
faithful performance of their duties under this act. The 
bond shall be filed with the president of the board, and a 
copy of ihe same shall be sent to the Superintendent of 
Public Education, and in case of breach of condition 
thereof, he shall bring suit thereon in the name of the 
district. 

Eighth — They shall, from time to time, examine tliC 
accounts of the treasurer, and make settlement with him, settlement ot 
and present at each regular meeting of the election a full ^'^^°''^^'^^' 
statement of the receipts and expenditures of the district, 



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RegulatiiiG 
schools. 



Quorum. 



Uniform text 
books. 



and all matters delegated to them to pei-form, and all 
such other matters as may be deemed important. 

Ninth — To visit the schools in their district, and aid 
the teachers in establishing- and enforcing rules for the 
government of the schools, and see that thej keep a cor- 
rect list of the pupils, embracing the period of time 
during which tlie}- attend school, the branches taught, 
and such other matters as may be required by the division 
superintendent.. A. majority of the board shall be a 
quorum to transact business, but a less number may 
adjourn from time to time. 

Each district board shall adopt a uniform series of 
books for all the schools in their district, and such series 
shall not be changed oftener than once ui two veavs. 



DUTIES OF DISTRICT OFFICEES. 



President of 
District Board 



To appear in 
suite. 



Gounse]. 



Gecretary to 
keep full 
records. 



iNotice of raest- 
ings. 



Sec. 23. . Be it farther enacted, etc.. That the president 
shall preside in all meetings of the board and of the dis- 
trict; shall draw all drafts upon the State Treasurer and 
upon the treasurer of the parish board for money appor- 
tioned to his district; sign all orders on the district treas- 
ury, specifying in the order the fund on which they are 
drawn, and the use for which the money is assigned ; and 
lie shall sign all contracts. The president shall appear in 
l^ehalf of his district in all suits brought by or against 
the same, but when he is individually a party, this duty 
shall be performed by the secretary; and in all cases 
where suits may be instituted by or against any of the 
school officers, to enforce any of the provisions herein 
contained, counsel may be employed by the Board of 
Dii-ectors. The secretary shall record all the proceedings 
of the board and district meetings in separate books kept 
for that purpose; shall preserve copies of all reports made 
to the State and Division Superintendents; shall file all 
reapers transmitted to them pertaining to the business of 
t he district, and shall countersign all drafts, warrants and 
orders drawn by the president. He shall keep an accurate 
account of all the expenses incurred by the district, and 
shall present the same to the Board of Directors, to be 



it 

audited and paid as herein provided, Tte shall give teii 

•lays' previous notice of all regular and special 'meetings 

of the district by posting a written notice in five different 

conspicuous places therein, one of vi^hicli shall be at or 

near the place of meeting of the district board. On or Ammai report. 

Ijefore the twentieth-day of September in each year, the 

secretary of each school district shall file with the Division 

Superintendent a report of the affairs of the district, wliicli 

shall contain the following items, viz : 

Fir><t — The number of persons, male and female each, persons in 
in his district, between the ages of six and twenty-one 
years. 

Second — The number of schools and the branches si-imois. 
taught. 

Third — ^The number of pupils, and the average attend- PnpUs. 
anee of the same in the school. 

Fourth. — The number of teachers employed, and the 
average compensation paid per week, distinguishing males 
i'rom females. 

Fifth — The length of school in days, and average cost Time and cost 

.... , „ 111 '-'^ schools. 

oi tuition per week for each scholar. 

Si.Hh — The aggregate amount ijaid teachers during the 

°° '^ ^ "^ Salary of 

year, and the balance of teachers' fund in the treasury. t<a:ii.is. 

Seventh — The text books used, and the numljcr of 
volumes in the district library, and value of apparatus 
1 )elonging to the district. 

Eighth — The number of school houses and tlieir cstima- peuooi iiouses. 
ted value. 

Ninth — The amount raised within the year by tax for 
the erection of school houses, the amount for teachers' Tax. 
fund and for other purposes of this act, stating separately 
tlie amount for each. 

Tenth — The amount of public fund received from the 
parish treasurj^, and, if any, from other sources, stating pi,buc fund. 
what, and how much from each, and such other informa- 
tion as he may deem useful. ShotUd the Secretary fail 
to file his report, as above directed, he shall forfeit the 
sum of twenty-five dollars, and shall make good all losses P-uaity. 
resulting from such failure; and suit shall be broup;ht in 
3 



Trx; 1.- 



u 



Sctool house 
rand. 



Partial par. 
Liients. 



Report. 



both cases by the district board on his official bund. Thp 
Treasurer shall hold all moneys belonging- to the district 
and pay out the same on the order of the President, 
countersigned by the Secretary, and shall keep a correct 
account of all expenses and receipts in a book provided 
for the pitrpose. The money collected by district tax for 
school house purposes, and all contingent expenses, shall 
be called ihe "School House Fund," and that received for 
the support of teachers shall be called the "Teachers' 
Teacbpi-s' fnud. Fund;" and the Treasurer shall keep with such fund a 
separate account, and shall pay no order which does not 
specify the fund on which it is ch-awn and the specific use 
to which it is applied. If he have not -sufficient funds in 
his liands to pay in ftill the warrants drawn on the funds 
specified, he shall make partial payment thereon, paying 
as near as maj' be an eqtial proportion of each warrant. 
He shall receive all money apportioned to the district by 
the Superintendent of Public Edttcation. He shall render 
a statement of the finances of the district from time to 
time, as may be required by law, and his books shall 
always be open for inspection. 

Sec. 24. Be it further enacted, etc., That it shall be the 
dtity of the District Board of School Directors, between 
the first day of August and the fifteenth day of Septem- 
ber of each year, to make and keep on record a list of the 
names of all heads of families in the district, and the 
number of children in each family between the ages of 
six and twenty-one years, distinguishing males from 
females, and to report the same to the Division Superin- 
tendent on or before the said fifteenth day of September, 
in each year. They shall further repoi-t the number of 
schools in their district, and the branches taught, the 
number of pupils and average iittendance of the same in 
each school, the number of teachers and the compensa- 
tion of each, the text books used, the nttmber of school 
houses and the estimated value of each. 

They shall have power to dismiss any jDupils from the 
schools in their district for gTOSs immorahty, or for per- 
sistent violation of the regulations of the school, and to 



District Board 
10 make list of 
names. 



Anmial report. 



Dismission ot 
pupils. 



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rcftdDjit tlicni if they (leeni it proper so to do; Hud sliall 
visit the scbools in tlioir district at leant twice diiriiigeacli 
tc nn of .said school. 

All contracts witii teaclicrs shall be in writing-, s))Gcit'y- 
inff the len^f-th of time the school is to be tano-ht, in Aveeks, (juiura.is -wau 

'- , IcKcliers. 

the compensation per week, or per month of lonr Avccks, 
and such other matters as may be agreed upon, ;iud shall 
bo signed l)y the director and teacher, and be approved by 
and filed with the president before any teacher shall be 
entitled to a warrant for services. 

Sec. 2.5. Be it further enacted, etc., That in each dis- 
trict there shall be taught one or more schools for in- Number and 

_ term ol Bcliools. 

struction of youths between the ages of six and twenty- 
one years, for at least twelve weeks, of five school days 
each, in each year, unless the State Board of Education 
shall be satisfied that there is good and sufficient cause 
for failure so to do. 

Scholars residing in one district may attend school in 
another, in the same or adjoining parish, with the con- Tj-ausfcr o( 

scholais. 

currence of the directors of both districts, and in such 
case, their proportion of the school money of the district 
to which they belong shall be paid to the treasurer of the 
district in which they attend school ; and scholars may 
attend any school in the Avard in which they reside, with 
the consent of the district board. 

Sec. 26. Be it further enacted, etc., That no parish or 
district school director shall receive any compensation den^edr"^ '°^ 
tor his services as director, or as an officer of the board. 

Sec. 27. Be it further enacted, etc.. That each ward 
district shall hold regular meetings annually, on the first Meetiugs oi 
Saturday in May, at which all the qualified electors of 
the district may attend ; Provided, That the first regular 
meeting- of the qualified electors shall be held at sucli 
time as the Superintendent of Public Education may 
designate, Said meetings shall be presided over by the 
President of the District Board of School Directors, and 
the secretary of s^id board S^l^al} lop the secretary of thf; 
ineetiy|«', " 



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The electors of a district, when legally assembled at a 
Pnirev of dec- tlistfict school meeting, shall have power to levy such 
tax, not exceeding ten mills on the dollar in aay one 
year, on the taxable property of the district, as the meet- 
ing shall deem sufficient, to purchase or lease a suitable 
site for a school house or school houses, and to build, 
rent or purchase a school house or school houses, and to 
keep in repair and furnish the same with the necessary 
fuel and appendages, and for compensation of teachers, 
and for procuring district libraries and apparatus for the 
schools, books and stationery for the board and district 
meetings, and defray all other contingent expenses of the 
district; Provided, That no tax shall be levied for building- 
school houses, excepting at the regular meetmg in May. 
Whenever any tax has been voted at the regular meet- 
Propaity taxKci. iug of the electors of a district, it shall be considered as 
by said vote levied upon the assessed value of all real and 
personal property in the district. The secretary of the 
se<;retHiy i.jccr. meetinQ- shall, witliin ten days thereafter, certify the same 

tilylax. , . ' . 

to the District Board of School Directors, who shall certify 
the number (jf mills of the tax thus levied to the collector 
of State taxes for the parish. 

It shall thereupon be the duty of said collector to e:iter 
As&essment and the same upon a separate assessment roll, which roll he 

csllectioEOf tax. , . .^ . 

shall, within ten days after he has been cei'tified of the 
levy of the tax, submit to the District Board of School 
Directors, who shall examine, and, if con'ect, approve the 
same. The tax thus levied shall be collected in the same 
manner and by the same officer as State taxes, and sliaU 
be paid over quarterly, at such time as the District Bonrd 
of School Directors may direct, to the treasurer of the 
distiict. 

Sec 28. Be it farlher eported. etc. That any person 
Penalty ior fail- who shall be clulv appointed as a parisli or district school 

ing to qualify. ' , 

director, and shall refuse, neglect or fail to qualify accord- 
ing to law, and enter upon the peiformauce of the duties 
of the office within ten days after official notification of 
liis appointment, shall forfeit a sum not less than one 
|iui]4vefi dollars, to Vie vecoveretl by action before nux 



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court of competent jurisdiction. It shall be the duty of 

tlie district attorney to prosecute all such causes, and for District Atior- 

cach successful prosecution lie shall receive as a fee 

twenty-five per cent, of the amount thus recovered. The 

State Board of Education shall report to each ineetinff of siaie Board lo 

' * report. 

the General Assembly- the names of all persons so failmg 

to serve, and tlie action had in each case by the district 

attorney; Provided, That no person disqualified by reason 

nC ineligibility, or who shall be disabled by sickness from ExcepUous. 

Kerving, shall be suliject to the penalties of this section. 

All funds thus collected siiall go to the scliool fiuul of the 

district or parish. 

Sec. 29. Se it furlhrr cnadrd, cA-., That the Stal(; 
Board of Education shall have iwwer to remove any iiemovaior 

school director?. 

l>arish or district school director for negligence, incom- 
petency or violation of law, after a due hearing and fair 
trial. 

Sec. 30. lie il, fuiilipr enacted, elc, That the Superin- 
tendent of Public Education shall cause notice of the xctice o( auuuai 
annual district meetings of the electors to be published 
in each parish, and, as far as possible, in each ward dis- 
trict, at least thirty days before such meetings. 

Sj:«;. 31. Be it further enacted, etc., That the treasurer 
of the Board of Parish School Directors shall, imme- Parish treaeurer 

T 1 -I Tji j^- • to transfer 

diately upon his appointment and qualmcation, receive school funds, 
from tlie parish treasurer all scliool funds that may be in 
the hands of the parish treasurer, and all records and 
accounts relating to any school funds. Any parish ti'eas- penalty for re- 
urer who shall fail on demand to turn over such funds feffifad's!'""'^' 
and records to the treasurer of the Parish Board of School 
Directors, shall forfeit the sum of tliree hundred dollars, 
to I:)e recovered by action before any court of competent 
jurisdiction, and shall, in addition, be liable upon his 
official bond with his sureties for any loss to the school 
fixuds or damage to the public interest that may be suf- 
fered thereby, l^'rom and after the passage of this act, j^^ warrants to 
the Auditor of Pubhc Accounts shall issue no warrants j'^^'freaslirci?'-? ' 
upon any school fund to any parish treasurer. All claims 
upon such fpuds now held by parisli treasurers shall be 



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examined by the State Board of Education, and referred 
by them to the next General Assembly. 

Sec. o2. Be it furllwr enacted, etc., That nil vacan- 

FiUmg vacau- cios in uBy Board of Parish School Directors shall be 

IJlled by the State Board of Education; all vacancies in 

;iny District Board of School Directors sliall he filled 

1)}' tire Parish Board of School Directors of the parish. 

QUALIFICATIONS AND DUTIES OF TEACHER?. 

Sec. 33. Be it farther enacted, etc , That no person 
Teachers' ccrfi- shall be employed to teach a common school unless he 
shall have a certilicate of (pialification, signed by the 
Divisii.>n Superintendent of the division in which the 
school is situated, or l)y the Superintendent of Public 
Education; and no certificate shall be valid more than 
one year from the date thereof; and any teacher who 
commences teaching without such certificate shall forfeit 
all claim to compensation for the time during which he 
teaches without such certificate. 

Second — The teacher shall keep a correct register of 
School register, the school, which shall exhibit the district, ward, parish 
and State in which the school is kept, the day of the 
week, the month and year, the name and age and 
attendance of each scholar, and the branches taught; the 
register to be after the form supplied by the Board of 
Education. 

Tliird— When scholars reside in dittereut districts, a 
register shall be kept for each district. 

Fourth — -The teacher shall, immediatel}^ after the close 
Copy to bo filed, of his school, file in the olfice of the secretary of the 
board and transmit to the State Board of Education a 
certified copy of the register aforesaid. 

EEVENUE. 

Sec. 34. Be it furtlier enacted, dc, That for school 
School rcveuue. purposcs there shall be annually levied b}' the Auditor of 
Public Accounts, and coliectecl by the collectors of State 
HtatG tax, taxes, in the same manner as other State taxes are levied 

and collected, two mills upon the dollar upon all taxable 
property in the State. It shall be the duty of the Audi- 
toy of Pi|biie Accounts tq notify the tax collectors of tliis 



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fissGssmont, and require the collection thereof. The tax 
("ollectors shall make separate monthly returns to the 
Auditor of Public Accounts (who shall transmit a copy 
thereof to tlie Superintendent of Public Education) of 
the collection of this tax, and pay the same into the Staff 
treasury. 

Sec. 3.5. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Super- 
intendent of Public Education shall, quarterly, on the Apportionment 

bv State Snper- 

tu'st Monday in March, June, September and December iutpndpni. 
in each year, apportion the funds thus raised among the 
several ward, district, city or town school Ijoards of the 
State, according to the number of children between the 
ages of six and twenty-one years, within the cities, towns 
or ward districts for which the respective boards have 
been appointed. The amounts so apportioned shall 1)e 
paid b}'- tlie State Treasurer to the treasurer of each 
such board upon the warrant of the president, counter- 
signed by the secretary thereof. 

Sec. 36. Be it further enacted, etc., That the State 
Board of Education may establish academies, normal Academies and 
schools and a teachers' institute, and provide for the 
government and control of the same. 

Sec. .37. Be it further enacted, etc., That there shall 
be no public free schools within the State, not under the pubiic schools 
control of the boards of school directors herein provided control inter-^^*^ 
for. The city of New Orleans, and other incorporated '^^'^^^'^'• 
cities or towns, as well as all parochial authorities, are 
prohibited from organizing and maintaining separate 
public schools from those organized under this law, and 
controlled by the boards created hereby. It shall not 
be competent for any municipal or parochial authority to 
levy or collect any tax or impost to sustain schools not 
controlled by the boards acting under and by authority 
of this law. 

GENERAL PROVISIONS. 

Sec. 38. Be it further enacted, etc., That in the dis- 
charge of jtheir duties in their several divisions, the Division supei.- 
Division Superintendents shall comply with such instruc- jeeuo instruct 
tions of the Superintendent of Public Education as are '''"^^' 



not ineonsistent with the provisions of this law, nor 
witli the rules and reo-ulations of the State Board of 
Education; and in case of failure to perform their duties 
as herein specified and provided, or for other improper 
conduct, the Superintendent of Public Education shall 
report the facts in the case to the Grovernor, Avho may 
Governor may remove such Divisiou Superintendent and appoint a suc- 

remove. 

cessor, as herein provided. 

Sec. 39. Be it farther enacted, etc., That tlie offices of 
offipps var>ated. all Scliool Directors, parish, city or district, and of all 
Division Superintendents, and of the members of the 
State Board of Education appointed or elected under 
any previous law, are hereby declared vacant, and upon 
the appointment of the officers provided for by this act, 
each and all of said officers shall, uj^on the demand of the 
officers appointed iinder this act, turn over all books, 
records and. furniture of their offices to tlie officers thus 
appointed. ^ 

Sec. 40. He it furllwr enarted, etc.. That the fees of 
Fees of asse?- assessors for assessing any State school tax shall be 

sors and col- 

isciors. one per cent. No fees shall be allowed any officer for 

assessing x^arish or district school taxes. The fees of 
collectors for collecting all school taxes shall be five per 
cent. 

Sec. 11. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Treasurer 

Treasurer of of the Parish Board of School Directors in each parish it-- 

parish board to 

examine ac- herslsv required and authorized to examine the accounts 

counts, report '' 

and prosecute of formcr parish treasurers with the school fund, and 
report all delinquencies and defaults in settlement and 
payment by any parish treasurer, to the State Board of 
Education, who shall report the same to the Cleneral As- 
sembly. Upon the discovery of any such default or de- 
Hnquency, the said treasurer of the Parish Board is 
authorized to prosecute suit" in the name and for the use 
of said board against the delinquent or delinquents, and 
shall receive twenty-five per cent, of any and all amounts 
recovered by such prosecution, and paid to the parish 
school fund. 



I'or default. 



Sec. 42. Be it further enarleJ, etc, Thnt all officers 

Oath prescribed 

appointed under this act shall take the oath ot oltice pre- 
scribed by law. 

Sec. 43. Be it further enacted, etc., That wlien any 
officer is superceded by appointment, he sliall immedi- Books aud pa- 

■"■ ./ 1 _ pars to be sur- 

afcely deliver to his successor in office all books, papers rendered. 

and moneys belonging to liis office, taking a receipt 

therefor. Every officer who shall refuse to do so, or who 

shall wilfully mutilate or destroy any such books or 

papers,, shall be liable to a fine of not less than fifty nor Penalty for with 

more tlian five hundred dollars, at the discretion of the ^"''°"- 

court. 

Sec 44. Be it further enacted, etc., That the Bible shall 
not be excluded fi'om the public schools, but no pupil Bible in af-bnois. 
shall be required to read it contrary to the wishes of his 
parent or guardian. 

Sec. 45. Be it further encated, etc., That any officer, 
school, municipal, parish or State, or any teacher of any Refusaito admit 

' . . , , pupils. 

]:)ublic school who shall refuse to receive mto any school 
any child between the ages of six and twenty-one years, 
who shall be lawfully entitled to admission into the same, 
and shall comply with such rules and regulations as may 
be presented by the Board of School Directors and the 
State Board of Education, shall be deemed guilty of 
misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be pun- 
ished by a fine of not less than one hundred nor more penalty, 
than five hundred dollars, and by imprisonment in the 
parish jail for not less than one month nor more than six 
months, and all such causes shall have preference before 
other criminal cases upon the docket of the court before 
which it shall be brought; and such person so ofteuding 
shall also be liable to an action for damages by the 
parent or guardian of the child so refused. 

Sec. 46. Be it further enacted, etc., That the police 
juries of the respective parishes shall be, and they are Parish school 
hereby authorized to levy a tax not exceeding two mills 
on the dollar, in any one year, on the taxable property of 
the parish; the same to be collected as other parish 
taxes, and under the same rules and regulations. The 
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2fi 

lai so collected shall be paid over bj tlie tav collectors 
in the foUowing manner, to ^^dt : The amont of tax col- 
lected in any parish from property situated within the 
limits of a corjDoration, for which a separate board of 
school directors have been apx^ointed, shall be paid to the 
To wiiom to be trcasiu'cr of said board of school directors. The amount 

paid. 

of tax collected from other property in the parish shall 

be j)aid to the treasurer of the Parish Board of School 

Directors. The funds so realized shall be apportioned by 

Apportionment the Board of Parish School Directors among- the several 

ol pai'isli <!cliool . • J.1 

tniKis. boards of district school directors in proportion to the 

number of persons between the ages of six and twenty- 
one years within their respective districts. 

Sec. 47. Be it further enacted, etc.. That a school 

School month, month shall consist of four weeks of five school days each. 
Any ofiicer whose term of office is prescribed by this act 
shall continue in office until his successor is appointed 
and qualified. 

Sec. 4S. Be it further enacted, etc., That all fines and 

Fines and penal- penalties collected from a district officer by virtue of any 
of the provisions of this act, shall inure to the benefit of 
that particular district. Those collected from any member 
of the district board of school directors shaU. belong to 
the ward, and those collected fi'om parish officers to the 

Suits for penal- parish. In the two former cases suit shall be brought in 
the name of the district board of school directors; iu the 
latter ia the name of the pariah and by the district attor- 
ney. The amount in each case shall be added to the 
fund next to be applied by the recipient for the use of 
common schools. 

Sec. 49. Be it further enacted, etc., That any person 

A<;grievauces, aggTievcd by any decision or order of the district board of 
school dii'ectors, iu matters of law or of fact, may, within 
thirty days after the rendition of such decision, or the 
making of such order, appeal therefrom to the superin- 
tendent of the proper district. 

The basis of the proceeding shall be an affidavit, filed 

Procedures iu by the party aggrieved, with the Division Superintendent, 
within the time allowed for taking the appeal. 

The affidavit shall set forth the errors complained of 
in a plain and concise manner. 



aggrievances. 



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The Division Superintendent sliall, within five days 

after the filing such affidavit in his office, notify the sec- rurtjier pro- 
s' ' '' ceedings. 

retary of the proper district, in writing, of the taking of 
such appeal. And the latter shall, within ten days after 
being thus notified, file in the office of the Division Super- 
intendent a complete transcript of the record and pro- 
ceedings relating to the decision complained of, which 
transcript shall be certified to be correct by the secretary. 

After the filing of the transcript aforesaid in his office, 
he shall notify, in writing, all persons adversely inter- rnmg of trau- 
ested, of the time and place where the matter of the 
appeal will be heard by him. 

At the time thus fixed for hearing, he shall hear testi- 
mony for either party, and for that purpose may admin- Hearing of the 
ister oaths, if necessary, and he shall make such decision 
as may be just and equitable, which shall be final, unless 
appealed from, as hereinafter provided. 

An appeal may be taken from the decision of the Divi- 
sion Superintendent to the State Board of Education in Appeals. 
the same manner as provided in this act for taking 
appeals from the decision of the District Board of 
School Directors to the Division Superintendent, as 
nearly as practicable, except that he shall give thirty 
days' notice of appeal to the Division Superintendent, 
and the like notice shall be given the adverse party. 
And the decision, when 'made, shall be final; Provided, 
That in cases which may arise when the State Board of 
Education are not in session, such appeal may be taken 
to the Superintendent of Public Education, who may 
decide the appeal, subject to the revision of the State 
Board of Education at its next meeting. 

Nothing in this act shall be so construed as to autho- 
rize either the Division Superintendent or the State cases that in- 
Board of Education to render a Judgmeut for money; 
neither shall they be allowed any other compejisation 
than is now allowed by law; .Provided, That all ^pcessary 
postage must first be paid by the party aggrieved. 

Sec. 50. Be it further enacted, etc., That where la^ds 
shall be required for the erection oi a school Iiouse, or Lauds taken for 
for enlarging a school house lot, ^hd the owner thereof ^^ °° p^ipost 
shall refuse to sell the same for a reason a Vile nompensa,- 



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Ee dress of laud 
owner. 



Voters only eli- 
gible to office. 



Failure to per- 
form duties. 



State beminary 
exempted from 
"peratiouof this 
la^v. 



Salary of teach- 
ers. 



Apportioumenfc 
fit school money 
withheld in cer- 
tain cases. 



tion, tlie District Board of School Directors shall have 
the power to select and possess such sites, embracing 
space sufficiently extensive to answer the purpose of 
school house and grounds. Should such landholder 
deem the sum assessed too small, he shall have the right 
to institute suit before any proper judicial tribunal for 
his claim, but the title shall pass from him to the school 
corporation. 

No person shall hold any office under the provisions of 
this act, unless he is a qualified voter of the State. 

A failure on the part of any district, parish or State 
officer to perform the duties imposed upon him in this 
act, and in the manner herein specified, is hereby declared 
a misdemeanor in office, upon conviction whereof such 
officer shall be punished by a fine not less than fifty and 
not exceeding one huudi-ed dollars, and by imprisonment 
in tlie parish prison for a term of not less than thirty 
days, and not exceeding three months. All prosecutions 
for offenses against this section shall have precedence 
over all other cases before any justice of the peace, ox 
parish or district court. 

Nothing in this act shall be construed to apply to the 
State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, it 
being the true intent and meaning of this act to leave 
that institution to be controlled by laws heretofore enact- 
ed concerning it. 

The State Superintendent of Public Education shall 
make provision for model primary and grammar schools, 
under permanent and highly qualified teachers, in which 
the students of the normal school shall have opportunity 
to practice in the art of teaching. The salary of. the 
teachers of the model uiid experimental schools shall be 
paid from the tuition fees derived from the pupils of 
said model schuols, and those of the normal school who 
pay for their tuition; and any balance that may be re- 
quired shall be paid by the State Board of Education 
out of the public school fund. 

Sec. 51. Be U ftoiher enacted, etc., That in case any 
district board of school directors for any ward or any 
pa,rish, pit^ o|' town, pr if tb^ finnuyl meeting of th^ QBUil- 



29 

itiod electors of vmy such district shall rei'ase or fail to 
make suitable provision by purchase, lease or other- 
Avise, for at least one school house in each district, to be 
used for school purposes at least four mouths in each 
year, and for the suitable furnishing and warming- of the 
same, or to levy a guiiicient tax for tliese purposes, no 
apportionment of any school fund made to such district 
by the Superintendent of Public Education, or by any 
other officers, under this act, shall be paid by any State, 
parish or city treasurer to the board of district school 
directors for such district. 

It shall be the duty of the Superintexident of Public 
Education to notify the proper treasurers of any such Notification to 
delinquent districts, and such notification shall be the ^^■'^*^^'-'^®*"' 
authority of such treasurer for the withholding of such 
payments. 

Sec. 52. Be it further enacted, etc., That if, in any par- 
ish, before the month of December, in the years 1 870 and Parish boards 

-iTrr-iii i-i-s-.>j-i-» 1 i>fNi 1-r-.- authorized to BE- 

1871, the several District Boards of School Directors tabitsh schools 
shall have failed to establish at least one school in a dis- boards tail tu 
trict,' in one-half of the districts of the Parish, the Parish 
Board of School Directors are hereby empowered to make 
provisions for schools in the districts for which schools 
have not been provided, and for that purpose, after ap- 
portioning to the districts which may have established 
schools, their proportion of the parish school tax, said 
parish board may direct the expenditure of the remainder 
upon the schools established by said board. 

Sec 53. Be it further enacted, etc., That in the years 
eighteen hundred and seventy and eighteen hundred and provision lur 

I 1 • ■ 1 n J! j_i schools when 

rieventy-one, whenever, m any parish, any or all ot the district direct- 
school districts shall fail to levy a sufficient tax, and make ifjor\o°Tl\s& 1 
suitable provision for at least one school house in the ™ '"'^" 
district, and for the payment of a teacher for at least two 
months, or when, in any or all of said school districts the 
pistrict Directors shall have failed to qualify and enter 
upon the duties of their offices before the first day of De- 
ueniber in each or either of said years, the State Superin- 
tendent may, ux^on the written report of the Parish Board 
of pchool Directors, setting forth iha I'acts above named; 
direct t}l§ ^k^M '^'veasnrer to >yithh*>M the apportion ni en,!- 



30 

of the State school fund from said district or districts, 
and direct him to pay the same to the treasurer of the 
Parish Board of School Directors of such parish, and such 
parish board shall proceed to establish and conduct and 
maintain public schools in such district or districts, and 
may expend the funds from tlie State oi- parish school 
taxes of the district for that purpose. 

PUBLIC SCHOOLS IN THE CITY OF NEW ORLEANS. 



iNew Orleaus 
city board of 
school directors 



Powers aud 
duties. 



Ward scliool 
directors. 



Secretary of cit; 
board. 



Each ward 
board a bocTy 
corTioratec 



Sec 54. Be it farther enacted, etc., Tiiat in the city of 
New Orleans there shall be a Board of School Directors 
of eleven members, who shall hold their offices for two 
years, and until their successors are dul}^ elected or ap- 
pointed aud qualified- At its first meeting after the pas- 
sage of this act, the State Board of Education shall ap- 
point six members of the said City Board of School Di- 
rectors, and the Common Council of the city of New 
Orleans shall, as soon as possible after the passage of this 
act, elect five members thereof. 

If the Common Council should fail or neglect, for tljree 
months after the appointments are made by the State 
Board of Education, to elect such members, the State 
Board of Educatioii shall fill their places. Said Board 
shall have all the powers and perform all the duties in 
reference to the public schools of the city, and to the dis- 
tribution of the school funds thereof, herein conferred 
upon the parish boards of school directors for other par- 
ishes. Said board shall hold its first meeting within 
thirty days after its appointment ; shall choose a presi- 
dent and treasurer from its own members, aud shall at 
once proceed to appoint, for each ward of the city of New 
Orleans, a ward board of school directors of five persons. 

Sec. 55. Be it farther enacted, etc., That the board of 
school directors for the city of New Orleans may elect a 
secretary, whose salary shall be eighteen hundred dollars 
($1800) per annum, paj^able monthly, out of the public 
school fund, upon the warrant- of the president of the 
board. 

Sec. 56. Be it farther enacted, etc., That each ward 
board iu the city of New Orleans, appointed under this 
act, shall be a. body corporate by the name of the -^^Yftr^ 



HI 

School District of the city of New Orleans," and in that 
name maj^ hold property, sue and be sued, contract, and 
do other corporate acts. 

Sec. 57. Be it further enacted, etc., That each ward 
board of school directors in the city of New Orleans shall powers and 
have the powers and duties, and be governed by the reg- 
ulations herein prescribed for district boards of school 
directors in other parishes. 

Sec. 58. Be it further enacted, etc., That each Avard 
board of school directors for the city of New Orleans snii.custricts, 
may, in their discretion, subdivide their ward into two 
or more sub-districts for school purposes, as may be 
deemed best for the public interest. 

The ward board of school directors for each ward 
shall convene an annual meeting of the qualified electors Annual meetin? 
of each ward district on the first Saturday in May, of each 
year, which meeting shall have the powers and rights to 
levy taxes, and do other acts herein conferred upon the 
meeting of the qualified electors of ward districts in the 
parishes; Provided, Then whenever any ward board of 
school directors shall have subdivided the ward into sub- 
districts, the electors of each sub-district shall assemble 
on each first Saturday in May, in separate meetings, and 
such meeting for each such sub-districts shall have all 
the powers and rights to levy taxes, and do other acts 
herein conferred upon the annual meetings of the elec- 
tors of ward districts in other parishes. 

Sec. 59. Be it further enacted, etc.. That the ward 
boards of school directors for the city of New Orleans Transfer of 
may allow children from one sub-district to attend the 
schools of another sub-district in the same ward or other 
wards, when they may deem it advisable. 

Sec 60. Be it further enacted, etc., That the treasurer 
of the board of school directors for the city of New Treasurer's 
Orleans, and the treasurer of each ward board of school 
directors, shall each give a bond in such sum and under 
such conditions for the faithfid performance of his duty 
as the State Board of Education and Common Council 
may require. 

Sec. 61. Be it further enacted, etc.. That the control control vested 
and direction of all public schools within said city, which ^" '^'^^ '''°^'''^' 



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Repeals previ- 
ous enactments. 



CJontrol of city 
seliools. 



Applicatiou for 
liooks and pa- 
■DPrs. 



Kefusal to de- 
liver school 
property. 



ai'e supported from public school moneys, whetlier such 
moneys are derived from municipal or State taxation, is 
hereby vested in tlie board of scliool directors for the 
city of N"ew Orlean.s, that shall be appointed under this 
act: and all laws or parts of laws by which the Common 
Council of New Orleans is empowered to elect a board 
of directors of the public schools, and by which any 
control over any of the schools named above, is given to 
said board of directors appointed or elected by the Com- 
mon Council of New Orleans, and the special act of the 
GJ-eneral Assembly, approved March 14, 1S55, entitled 
"An Act relative to public schools in the city of New 
Orleans," be and the same are hereby repealed. 

Sec. 62. Be it further enacted, etc.. That the sole and 
exclusive control and regulation of all public schools 
within the city of New Orleans, whether supported by 
municipal or State taxation, is hereby vested in the 
board of school directors for the city of New Orleans, and 
the other subordinate and local boards appointed in said 
city in accordance with the provisions of this act; and 
that the offices of all school directors in said city, 
appointed or elected, or assuming to act under authority 
of any law made prior to this act, are hereby terminated 
and made to cease; and all the powers hitherto confer- 
red upon such school directors by virtue of any law or 
of any ordinance of said city, are hereby abolished and 
annulled. 

Sec. 63. Be it further enacted, etc., That the board of 
school directors appointed under and by virtue of this 
law shall at once apply to the person or persons now 
controlling the pubHc schools in said city for possession 
of the books, furniture, apparatus and appendages in the 
possession of the said board of school directors for said 
city; that if said person or persons, or any person or 
persons shall usurp control of the public schools afore- 
said, or shall fail or refuse to deliver said books, furni- 
ture, apparatus and appendages aforesaid, or shall 
assume or pretend to act as school directors for the city 
of New Orleans, in violation of law, he or they shall be 
deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, upon con- 
viction of the fact, be fined each one thousand dollars, 
and imprisoned at the discretion of the court. 



33 

Sec. 64. Be it further enacted, tic, That, if the validity 
of this law shall be questioned in any court, such suit Pieferren ?.w\i 
shall have preference over all causes yionding in such 
court. 

Skc. 65. Be it further enacted, etc.. That this law shall 
not be construed so as to divest the city aforesaid of any (.^^y i-etaius 
property in the school houses or furniture in which pub- *^*^®' 
lie schools are held, but said property shall vest as now, 
in said municipal corporation, to be by it held in trust 
for pu^^lic education under the laws of the State, and 
under the control and possession of the school boards 
appointed in accordance with this act. 

Sec. G6. Be it further enacted, etc, That the city of 
New Orleans be and is hereby prohibited from establish- proiaibition ot 

.... „ ,,. ,, • municipal 

mg or maintaining tree public schools separate irom seboois. 
those controlled by the officers appointed by this law. 

Sec. 67. Be it further enacted, etc., That no city or dis- 
trict school director, appointed in the city of New Orleans compensatior. 
under this act, shall receive any compensation for his* 
services. Any person so appointed and refusing or fail- 
ing to qualify and enter upon the duties of his office penalty for 
within ten days after he shall be officially notified of his qnaiiiy. 
appointment, shall forfeit the sum of two hundred dol- 
lars ($200), to be recovered by the »Superintendent of 
Public Education, before any court of competent juris- 
diction, for the use of the school fund ot the city. 

Sec 68. Be it further enacted, etc., That all acts and 
parts of acts in conflict with this act are hereby repealed, Pa^pr aiing 
and the charter of the city of New Orleans, and all laws 
or parts of laws, whether incorporated in the existing or 
any preceding charter of the city of New Orleans, or in 
any other statute of the State authorizing, requesting or 
enjpowering the Common Council of the city of New 
Orleans to establish and maintain public schools, or to 
elect school directors for the city of New Orleans, are 
wholly and expressly repealed. 



?A 

Sec. 65). Be it far/her enaclpJ, etc., That this act shall 
take effect from and after its passage. 

(Signed) MORTIjVIER CARE, 

Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
(Signed) OSCAR J. DUNN, 

Lieutenant Governor and President of the Senate. 
Approved March 1(T, 1870. 

(Signed) H. C. YVARIMOTH, 

Governor of the State of Louisiana. 
A true copy : , 

Tteo. E. Bovee, 

Secretary of State, 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX. 



ALPHABETICAL INDEX TO ACT No. 6. 



A. 



Academies — State Board may establish 

Algiers — Special regulation for Board of 

Aggeievances — Persons aggrieved may appeal to Superintendent 

Appeals — District Secretary to record and notify parties 

General directions for taking 

May be carried up to tlie State Board 



Ari'OBTioKMENTS — By Superintendent of Public Education to wards, towns, 

cities and districts 

By parish boards \ 

By parish boards ! 26 1 4( 

How to be paid '2313 



23135 
13121 



Auditor to issue no warrants to Parish Treasurers ,21 31 



Shall notify tax collectors of assessment j22 

State Superintendent shall report to 

Tax collectors shall report to 

Shall transmit a copy to State Superintendent 

B. 

Bonds of Treasurer of Parish Board 

To be given by Secretary and Treasurer 

Treasurers of ward boards in New Orleans to give 



34 



. Bible not to be excluded from schools 

No pupil to be compelled to read ; 1 25 



c: 



Ceeth'icates — Teachers must possess 

By whom signed 

, Valid for one year 

ilay be revoked 



CoLLEcxoE to make seiparate rolls for special school tax 

Fees to be five per cent 

To pay OA-er nioneyi to Treasurer' of BoiU'd 



11 


14 


23 


34 


23 


34 


13 


21 


15 


22 


31 


60 


25 


4i 


25 


44 


22 


33 


22 


33 


22 


33 


7 


8 


19 


27 


24 


40 


14 


21 



CoxovKESSiONAiJ DisTEicTS— School JJivisious to correspond with | 5i 2 

Exceptions in First and Second Districts | 5 i 2 



Contingent Expenses of State Supf,rintcudent/or oflice, etc 
Of same, for traveling expenses '....., 



Contracts to be in writing 

To be filed with President of Djstvii'f P.niud 



38 



CuMPEXSATiON — Xoue to be received by Parish or District Directors :19;26 

Denied to City or District Directors in New Orleans ; 33 1 67 

Of assessors and collectors of tax 24:' 40 

, Of District Attorney ' '21 28 

D. 

DiKEcior.s — Paei«h — How aiipointeil ; 12 18 

From whom chosen jl2 18 

. Parishes escepted |12 18 

To hold office two years : 12 19 

To take the oath of" office ;13jl9 

Abody corporate |13|20 

Mny sne and be sued . . . ■ 13|20 

Shall elect officers ■ 13|21 

To aiDpoint Disti'ict Boards 13|21 

Shall ^-isit schools ;14|21 

To report deficiencies or neglect 14' 21 

Tu receive and appoi-tion parish school tax levied by police jm-y 114121 

To apportion local tax among school districts 1 14' 21 

Penalty for refusing to qualify J20 28 

Vacancies, how filled '22^32 

DiKECTOES — DiSTEicT — How appointed IS, 21 

A body cor-porate 14 22 

May hold propeiiy 14i22 

To hold regular meetings ~ T4j22 

IViode of organizing jlo 22 

Powers and duties ...! 15122 

Shall make contracts, j)urchases, etc j.l5| 22 

Shall make contracts -ttdth teachers, in Arating il9;24 

Pvegulate schools and admit pui^ils 1 15*22 

Fix ^hc site of school houses , il5|22 

To establish schools j 15 1 22 

To determine studies ■ 15 22 

To take bonds and examine accounts ■ 15 22 

May establish graded schools 15 22 

31ay select a supervisor of schools 15 22 

Shall visit schools 16 22 

Shall adopt a uniform series of text books 16 22 

ShaU, audit and pay accounts 16 23 

Shall keep a hst of heads of families, etc 18 24 

Shall report to Division Superintendent 16 24 

Power to dismiss pupils 18 24 

Shall receive no compensation 1 19 26 

Vacancies, how filled .- '22 32 

Z^Iay take land for school-house sites 27 50 

DisTKicxs — One or more schools to be taught in, each : 19 ; 25 

Scholars may be transfeiTed to another district ....... T9 j 25 

Ward district meeting 19127 

i I 
DisTEiGX Attoexey — Shall prosecute certain cases i21 28 

ShaU receive fees ". 121 28 



Dtvision BrPEpaNTENDE.N'rs — How appointed 
To take oatl\ of otfiei; .... . ... 



.19 



To reside in his division 

To hold office tor thi'ee years 

Salarj' of 

Constitute a Stato Board 

Have general supervision of schools 

Shall examine teachers 

Shall transmit reports 

Shall hold quarterly examinations. 

Shall report to State Board 

May revoke teachers' certificates , . . . 

Sliall iile abstract of educable yoiith 

Shall forfeit fifty dollars for failure to report 

Shall conform to instructions of State Board 

Shall organize teachers' institutes 

Shall assist at teachers' associations 

Shall rejDort private schools, etc 

Meetings of Division Superintendents 

Shall comply with directions of State Superintendent. 



E. 

Examination of Teachees — By whom to be made. 

F. 



Fees — Of Assessors 

Of Collectors 

Fines — (See Penalty.) 

Fund — School House — To be raised by special tax 

^lust be levied at the regular meeting 

To be paid to district treasurer .... 

Fttnd — Teachees — "Whence derived ' 

Separate accounts to be kept 

Pro rata payments to be made 

FuNT) — School — How j)rovided for 

By whom to be collected 

To be apportioned by State Suioerinteudent , . . , . 

Parish tax for 

How to be levied 

Apportioned by parish board 

Penalties forfeited to 

- a. 

(teneral Assembly — State Superintendent to report to 

Eeports and documents subject to inspection bJ^ 

Superintendent of Public Education to report to 

GovEENOE— Shall, on nomination of State Superintendent, appoint Division 

Superintendents 

State Superintendent to report to - 

May remove Division Superintendent for caxise. 



6 3 

6 3 

6 3 
G 4 

7 6 

7: '.; 

'7 ij 
7 7 
7. i) 

7 8 

8 9 
8 9 
8 10 
8 10 
8110 

gjio 
io:i4 

2338 



7 G 



24 40 
24140 



20!27 
20 27 

20 27 

18 23 
18 23 

18 23 

I 

22 34 

22 34 

23 35 
25 40 

25 4G 

26 4G 
8l 9 



9 12 

9 II 

11 14 



5 3 
24 38 
24 38 



40 



L. 






o 



Louisiana State Semixap.t — Escliidecl from operation of school law 28';j<) 

Time inteut of this act couoerning 28 oO 

ZSI. 

ZvIoNEY — Appropriated for teachers" in-titutes • Uilo 

By whom to be received il4:2l 

How to be disbm-sed by treasiirer 'I4l2l 

Forfeited to school fnnd 26 4>i 



o. 

Oaths— Secretary of State Superintendent shall take 10 in 

Prescribed for all ofl&cers • 2o'42 

Division Supeiintendent may administer in certain cases 27 49 

iDfficees — Shall take oath of office 2-5 42 

When superseded shall deliver up books, etc 25 43 

Offices — Under former law vacated ;24 39 

^- i I 

Police JuiiiES — Shall pay a two mill tax |25'46 

President State Boaed— State Superintendent shall be. ex officio \ 6; 4 

May call special meetings i 6i 4 

PfvOfessob — From nonnal school to aid at teachers' institiites i Si 10 

Penalties Inflicted — On Division Superintendents , . . i 8j 9 

On Parish Treasui'ers |21'31 

On officers superseded j25 43 

For mutilating books or papers ;25|43 

For refusing admission to schools .25145 

For neglecting to provide for schools !28'51 

On Xew Orleans City Board for refusal, etc ,32 63 

For refusing to perform duties , 20 28 

Special penalty in New Orleans '33 67 

To inure to the benefit of the district ^ ^26 48 



E. 



Repoets— State Superintcndcut to General Assembly I 9 

- State Superintendent to Auditor '11 

State Superintendent to State Board. .' ill 

By District .)Secretaiies i 17 

Of State Board to General Assembly '. ^ . . . . ^ j24 

By Division Superintendents \ ^ I 71 9 

Subjects to be embraced in ; : ! H j 14 



PiEVENTE — How provided [22:34 

By whom to be collected j22'34 

To be apportioned bv State Superintendent !23 35 

Palish tax for '. |25|46 

Apportioned by Parish Board '26 46 

Penalties and fines forfeited to I Si 9 



41 



S 



Salaries — Of Division Superintendents 

Of Secretary of State Superintendent 

Of teachers of model schools 

Of Secretary of New Orleans City Board 

ScHOLAEs — Division Superintendents shall report number of. 

From one district may atten^ another 

To be reported by District Secretary 



School House Sites — By whom to be selected . 

Refusal of owners to sell 

Eemedy of land owner 



School Opkicees — Required to take oath 

Parish and district to serve without compensation 

Refusal to qualify. 

May be removed for cause 

To turn over papers to successor 

Penalty for destroying books or papers 

Who refuse to admit pupils 

Vacancies — how to be filled 



Schools — Shall be open to all children impartially .... 

Rules for the government of 

State Superintendent shall visit 

Funds may be withheld from 

Bible shall not be excluded from 

Penalty of refusing to admit pupils 

Control of all public schools vested in State Board 

Model primary and grammar 

New Orleans city schools 

School funds withheld from 

City of New Orleans prohibited from establishing . 



School Month — Shall consist of four weeks. 



Schools of New Oeleans— Organization of 

Board of, how appointed 

Powers and duties of Board of, same as parish boards . . . . 

Secretary of City Board 

Each ward board a body corporate , 

Powers and duties of ward boards 

Wards may be sub-divided 

Treasurers to give bonds 

Scholars of one allowed to attend in another sub-district . 

Control and direction of 

Conflicting acts repealed 

Penalty for refusing control 

Penalty for refusing to perform duties 

City retains title to houses and lands . . 



School Divisions — Division of State into 5 

I 

School Houses — Tax for the erection of i 20 , 27 

Plans to be approved by the State Superintendent. 115122 



Schools, Noemal — May be established by State Board 23 36' 

6 



4-2 



Schools, Pkhate — Di\ision Superintendent to report 9 '10 

Schools, Gsaded — State Superintendent may establish '28 50 

Secretary of Dlsteict Board— To be elected by board I15J22 

Required to give bonds |l5j 22 

To appear in behalf of districts 1 16|23 

To keep accurate accounts, etc |16 23 

To preserve and lile all official jDapers il6 23 

Shall countersign warrants, etc il6!23 

To give notice of meetings ; 16; 23 

To make an annual report i 17| 23 

Forfeiture in case of failure in duty '17123 

Secretary of City Board,. New Orleans — Office created and salary fixed. . '30I55 

Secretary of State S^perixtendent — To be appointed and duties pre-; j 

scribt-d .' 9 1 13 

To take oath of ofdce 10 

Salary of, how to be j)aid . . j 9 

State Board of Education — Of whom it shall consist ! 6 

How appointed ' 5 

Shall control all schools ' 6' .5 

President of : 6i 4 

Annual and special meetings of 61 4 

To make rules and regulations : 6j 5 

To recommend imiform series of text books '• 61 5 

Are constituted a body corporate 6 

May employ counsel ^ 6 5 

Shall appoint i^arish, town and city boards .12 16 

Shall report refusal of directors to serve 21 28 

To report delinquencies to General Assembly i24 41 

Have power to remove directors 21 29 

To fill vacancies in parish boards 22 32 

Shall open the schools to all by si)ecial regulation 6 5 

May establish academies, etc 23 36 

Shall appoint six members of New Orleans Board ■ 30 54 

Shall examine claims and report to General Assembly . . . . :21 31 



State SLTEKixTJi>-DE>-T — A member of State Board of Education 15 

Ex-oflicio President of the Board j 6 

Maj' call special meetings of Board , \ 6 

Shall nominate Division Superintendents | 5 

Oifice provided for I 9 

Shall file all loapers, reports, etc ! 9 

Shall cause correct records to be kept i 9 

Shall present an annual report i 9 

ShaU appoint a Secretary and prescribe duties j 9 

Is charged with general supervision 1 10 

Shall meet Di\dsion Superintendents . . . ". i 10 

Shall ^•isit schools ■. j 10 

Shall make provision for model schools !28 

Shall piiblish notice of district elections 121 

Shall make apportionment of school funds j23 

Shall distribute copies of school act, blanks, etc j 10 

Shall prepare lorm of teacher's cei-tificate , jlO 

To report to Auditor ill 



48 



To report to General Assembly 11 

To report to State Board 11 

To appoint teachers' institutes 11 

Triveiiug expenses to be paid 10 



Suits— Treasurer of Parish Board may institute. . 

President shall appear in 

In cases of fines and penalties 

For refusing to admit pupils 

In whose name to be brought 

To test validity of this law, have precedence 



T. 



Tax, Disteict — No fees allowed for assessing. 

How to be raised 

To be certified to District Board 

By whom to be collected 

Treasurer shall receive 



Tax, State — How levied and collected 

How apportioned 

Two mill tax to be levied by jjolice juries 
Separate returns of, to be made 



Teachees — Must have certificate '. 

Certificate valid for one year 

Contracts with to be in writing 

Shall keep a register 

Shall forward duplicate to State Board of Education. 

May be removed 

Institutes and associations of 

Examinations of 



Teachees' Associations — When and where to be convened. 



Teachers' Institutes — To be held annually in each division 
Assistance in conducting . . ; 



Text Books — Uniform series to be recommended 

Each District Board shall adopt 

May be changed, how often 



Teeasueee of Disteict Boaed — Shall receive and pay out money 

Shall keep separate accounts 

Partial payments may be rqade . . . '. 

Shall render a statement 

Accounts to be open to inspeotiqn 

Shall give bond -v^fith sureties . . . .' 



Teeasueers of lSfEA\ Okleans ScHOOiiSi— Eequired to give bonds 
To be appointed for each ward. . , '. 



Tti.f.asurer 03? Paexsh Boaeb- -Sir'.'! irceivp till funds ia hands of Parish 



23 
23 
23 
23 

18123 



15 



n <^i 



22 



44 



AVap.kants — Parish school tax warrauts on, how drawn 1 14 21 

President of District Board shall draM- il6i23 

District Secretary shall countersign i 16'2o 

State Treasurer shall paj' ' 23 35 

None to be issued to Parish Treasurer j 21 31 

President of District Board to draw on State Treasurer ..,,..,, 1 23 35 



GENERAL ENACTA1ENTS 
RELATING TO EDUCATION, 



DUTY OF SUPERINTENDENT IN REGARD TO SCHOOL 
LANDfci. 

From Section 29 o/' Act No. 321, of March 15, 1855. 

Sec. 89. (29.) He shall, tlirough the diiferent district 
attorneys, inquire annually into the condition of the inquire into 

, . . , . condition of 

Bchool sections, and institute such proceedings as may be bcIiooi sections. 
necessary for tlieir recovery when held illegally by indi- 
viduals, or for tlic collection of claims originating in the 
sale of school lauds which may be in arrears; and it shall 
be the duty of the District Attorney to prosecute the 
suits; Provided, The State Superintendent of Public Edu- 
cation shall be autliorized to employ other counsel to 
prosecute these suits, on the refusal or neglect of the Dis- 
trict Attorney to attend to the same. The money, when 
collected, shall be paid into the State treasury, and the 
interest thereof shall be placed to the credit of the district 
to which it belongs. 

FREE SCHOOL FUND. 

From Sections 31 /o 36 of Act No. 321 cf March 15, 1855. 

Skc. 90. (31.) The proceeds of all lands heretofore 
granted by the United States to this State for the use or what consti- 
support of schools, except the sixteenth section in the tuna, 
various townships of the States specially reserved by 
Congress for the use and benefit of the people therein; 
and of all lands which may hereafter be granted or 
bequeathed to the State, and not specially granted or. 
bequeathed for aiiy other purpose, which hereafter may 



46 

be disposed of by the State, and the ten per ceut. of the 
net proceeds of the sales of the public land wliich have 
accrued and are to accrue to this State under the act of 
Congress, entitlad "An Act to appropriate the proceeds 
of the public lands and to gTant pre-emption rights;" ap- 
proved September fourth, eighteen hundred and forty- 
one, and the proceeds of the estates of deceased persons, 
to which the State has or may beuome entitled by law, 
shall be lield by the State as a loan, and shall be and 
remain a perpetual fund, to be called the jFree School 
Fund, on which the State shall pay an annual interest of 
six per cent; which interest, together with the interest of 
the trust fund deposited with this State by the United 
States, under the act of Congress approved the twenty- 
third of June, eighteen hundred and thirty-sis with the 
rfints of all the unsold lands, except that of the sixteenth 
sections, shall be appropriated for the support of jDublic 
^ schools in this State; and donations of all kinds which X 
shall be made for the support of schools, and such other 
means as the Legislature may from time to time set apart 
for school purposes, shall form a part of the fujid, and 
shall also be a loan on which the State shall pay an 
interest of six per cent, per annum. 

DUTIES OF PARISH TEEASUEERS AS TO SCHOOL LANDS, 

ETC. 



Seuse of inhabit 



Sec 91. (32.) It shall be the duty of the parish trea- 
surers of the several parishes in this State, to have taken 
auts as to sale of \)^-^q scusc of the inhabitants of the township to which 

SL-liool land?. ■•- 

may belong any lands heretofore reserved and appropri- 
ated by Congress for the use of schopls, whether or not 
the same shall be sold, and the proceeds invested as au- 
thorized by an act of Congress approved February the 
fifteenth, eighteen hundred and forty-three, entitled an 
act to authorize the Legislatures of the States of Illinois, 
Arkansas, Louisiana and Tennessee to sell the lands here- 
tofore appropriated for the use of sohools in these States. 
Polls shall be opened and held in each township, after 
Manner oi iioki. advertisBjuent for thirty days at three of the most public 
r- ■ " places in the townshii\. find at the cmivthonse doov, nucl 



tile sense of the legal voters therein shall be taken within 
the usual hours, and in the usual manner of holding- 
elections, which elections shall be held and votes received 
by a district director' of public schools or a justice of the 
peace; and if a majority of the legal voters be in favor of 
selling the school land therein, the same may be sold, but 
not otherwise. The result of all such elections shall l)e 
transmitted to the Parish Treasurer, and by him to the 
State Superintendent. 

Sec. 92. (33.) Before making sale of the school lands 
belong-inc: to the State, it shall be the duty of the parish Kesurvey of 

° '^ w X lines. 

treasurer, or other persons whose duty it may become to 
superintend the sales, to cause a resurvey of such lines 
as from any cause may have become obliterated or imcer- 
tain; and for this purpose he is authorized to employ the 
parish surveyor, or, in his default, any competent sur- 
veyor, and the lines thus surveyed shall be marked in 
such manner as to enable those interested to make a 
thorough examination before sale; and all advertisements 
made for the sale of such lands shall contain a full descrip- 
tion thereof, according to the original survey and that 
required by this section. The expens.es of making the 
survey shall be paid by the Auditor of Public Accounts, 
out of the proceeds of the sale of the lands, on the 
warrant of the parish treasurer. 

Sec. 93. (34). (As amended and re-enacted by act 
267, of 1858). If the maiority of votes taken in a town- Manner of con- 

' ' '' '^ ducting sales. 

ship shall give their assent to the sale of the lands afore- 
said, the parish treasurer shall forthwith notify the Audi- 
tor of Public Accounts of the vote thus taken, and upon 
his order the said lands shall be sold by the parish 
treasurer at public auction, before the court house door, 
or by the sheriff or an auctioneer, to be employed by the 
treasurer at his expense, to the highest bidder, in quan- 
tities of not less than forty acres nor more than one liun- 
dred and sixty, after having* been previously appraised by 
three sworn appraisers, selected by the pariah treasurer 
and recorder of the parish, after thirty days' advertise- 
ment; but in no ease at a less sum than the appraised 



48 

VaiuGj payable on a credit of ten years, as follows, to wit: 
Ten per cent, in cash, and the balance in nine annual 
installments, the interest to be paid on the whole amount 
annually, at the rate of eight per cent, per annum. The 
notes shall be made payable to the Auditor of Public 
Accounts, secured by special mortgage on the land sold, 
and personal security, in soHdo, until final payment of 
principal and interest. In the event of the purchaser 
neglecting or refusing to paj^ any of these installments or 
interest at maturity, the mortgage shall be forthwith 
closed, and the parish treasurer is hereby authorized to ad- 
vertise and sell the land as before provided for, and fur- 
ther authorized and required to execute all acts of sale on 
behalf of the State for any such lands sold, to receive 
the cash payments and notes given for the purchase 
which shall be made payable to the State Treasurer, and 
to place the same in the ofiice of the Auditor of Public 
Accounts for collection. All cash received, either for 
principal or interest from said sales, shall be transmitted 
by him to the State Treasurer, and any moneys thus 
received mto the State treasury from sales aforesaid, 
shall bear interest at the rate of six per cent, per annum, 
and be credited to the township to which the same 
belongs, according to provisions of the act of Congress, 
The result of all sales made. by the parish treasurer shall 
be forthwith notified by him to the State Superintendent. 
The parish treasurer shall be authorized to receive the 
whole amount bid for the lands, deducting the eight per 
cent, interest which the credits woiild bear. 

DUTIES OF DISTEICT DIEECTOES AND PAEISH TEEAS- 
UREES AS TO UNSOLD SCHOOTi LANDS. 

Sec. 94. (35). Should a majority of the legal votes be 
Lease of echooi against the sale of the lands, then it shall be the duty of 
the district directors where the same may be situated to 
secure them from injury and Av^aste, and prevent illegal 
possession or aggression of any kind, and, in conjunction 
with the parish treasurer to lease the same, or any part 
thereof, for a term not exceeding four years, according to 



land 



49 

the provisions of the second section of the act of Con- 
gress aforesaid, and to inform the State Superintendent 
thereof. Such lease shall only be made after due notice 
shall have been given by advertisement for at least thirty 
days, at two or more public places in the township, of 
the time and place when the land will be offered for lease, 
to the highest bidder. In all cases ample securitj^ shal 1 
he required not only for the punctual payment oi the 
rent, but for the protection of the land from all and every 
kind of waste and injury. 

DISPOSITION OF PROCEEDS OF LAND. ETC. 

Sec. 95. (36). All moneys that have been or may be 
hereafter received into the State treasury, and the inter- Disposition of 
est that has or may accrue thereon from the sale of the school lands. 
sixteenth section of school lands or the school land war- 
rants belonging to the various townships in the State, 
shall be placed to the credit of the township; and should 
the people of any township desire to receive for the use 
of the schools therein the annual interest payable by the 
State on funds deposited to their credit, or the annual 
proceeds of the loans, the same shall be paid to the 
treasurer of the parish for the use of the townships or 
districts, otherwise the interest shall be an accumulating 
fund to their credit until so called for. 

FREE SCHOOL FUND IN STATE TREASURY. 

From Sections 9 and 10 of Act No. 182 of March 19, 1857. 

Sec. 96. (9). The interest due upon the capital (of tlic 
free school fund) and the interest due upon subsequent rreo srhooi 
sales of the sixteenth sections shall be paid to the sev- treasiny. 
eral boards of school directors of the districts ixi wJricli 
the several sixteenth sections lie, on their own orders, 
approved by the treasurer of the parish, at any time 
within two years after the same shall be due. It shall 
be the duty of the Auditor of Public Accounts, at the 
end of every fiscal year, to notify the treasurers of all 
the parishes in the 'State of the amount of interest com- 
7 



;1n 



Kents of six- 
teenth sections 



®onipensatioii 
to parish trea- 
surers. 



Collection of 
claims. 



.Annulment of 
sales by pnr- 
ohaHRV.o. 



ing to the several townships within the Hmits of the 
parish, from the interest accrued during the year then 
terminated, and at the same time to furnish the State 
Treasurer and Superintendent of Public Schools ^vith a 
tabular statement of the amount due to each township. 

Sec. 97. (10). The rents of the sixteenth sections that 
may hereafter accrue shall not be paid into the State 
treasury, but shall be paid to the Parish Treasui'er, and 
shall be subject to the order of the school directors of 
the districts in which the said sixteenth sections are 
located, and shall be by the said school directors appro- 
priated to the support of their respective pubhc schools. 

Acl for Compeii.<dion to Parish Treasurer, Xo, 33, of March 
12, 1859. 

. ~ Sec. 98. The parish treasurers of the several parishes 
shall be entitled to retain, out of the proceeds of the 
sales of sixteenth sections effected by them, a per eentage 
of two and one-half per centum on the amount of said 
sales, to be deducted from the cash payment, and tho 
same shall be in full compensation of their services. 

Act (for Collection of Notes) No. 217, March 17, 1859. 

Sec 99. First— Ihe Auditor of Pubhc Accounts is 
hereby authorized and required to place the notes re- 
ceived from the sale of the sixteenth sections now due 
and those that hereafter fall due, in the hands of an 
attorney or attorneys for collection. 

Second — The attorneys shall ' be allowed for coUeetiag 
all such claims five per cent, and no more. 

Act (for Belief of Purchasers j No. 83, of March 13, 1866. 

Sec 100. In aU cases of the sale of the school lands 
known as sixteenth sections heretofore made, where the 
purchase money has not been j^aid, the purchaser or pur- 
chasers shall have the right to annul the sale upon apph- 
cation to the District Court of the parish where the land 
is situated; Provided, That the judgment of nullity shall 



rom 
seizure. 



51 

be obtained at tlie eost of the applicant and contradictor 
lily witli the district attorney in conjunction with the 
school directors in the district in which said land is situ- 
ated, wlio shall bo made a ]iarty defendant in such suit; 
provided, also, that it shall appear upon the hearing that 
the value of the land has not been, impaired by any act 
of the purchaser; and. provided furlher, that nothing in 
this act shall be so construed as to entitle the said pur- 
chaser to repayment of any part of the purchase money 
already paid. ' 

Act (Exempting Properly of Public Schools from Seizure) 
No. Ibl, March 14, 1855. 

Sec. 101. Property dedicated to the use of and belong- 
ing to public schools, or employed by municipal cor- Exempt i: 
porations for that purpose, shall be and is hereby ex. 
(mipted from seizure. 

LAWJS rUOVIDING FOE THE FEEE EDUCATION OF 
TEACHEES. 

Xormul Department in High Schools — Organized in Firs! 
District of Neiv Orleans, in 1858. 

Hec. 102. Act to establish a Normal Depai'tmeut iu the Public 
High ychools in the city of New Orleans, No. 84, approved 
March 15, 1858, as amended and re-enacted bv Act No. 15o 
,AIarch 16, 1859. 

First — The Directors of the public scliools in the nmni- 
eipal ' districts of the city of New Orleans, are hereby Normal school 
authorized to establish in one or more of the Public High 'department. 
Schools under their charge, a distinct class or division, 
to be known as the Normal School Department, in which 
those only shall be entered who desire to receive instruc- 
tion in the art and science of teaching; said department 
to contain not less than ten and not more than one hun- 
dred pupils, who shall remain therein not less than three 
months nor longer than three years, and who shall pre- 
viously, by written pledge, have declared their intention 
of engaging in the occupation of teaching in the State of 
Louisiana, for at least two years from the time when 
diplomas shall have been a,warded to theiii as graduates 
of said department > 



K9 



Appropriation 
for support of. 



Beports of. 



C4raduateii 
pupil ?-. 



Second— ¥ov the support and encouragement of such 
Normal School Department there shall be appropriated 
out of the general fund of the State the sum of fifty dol- 
lars for each person receiving instruction therein, in 
accordance with the conditions hereinbefore prescribed, 
the said sum to be paid quarterly by the State Treasurer 
upon the warrant of the Treasurer of New Orleans, drawn 
on and approved by the Auditor of Pubhc Accounts in 
favor of the Du-ectors in whose municipal districts such 
departments shall have been organized; Provided, That 
the session of said department shall beheld on five daj-s 
of each week when not interrupted by national or State 
holidays, or by annual vacations ; and that the number of 
scholars presented as the basis for appropriation shall be 
in all cases the average attendance of scholars for the 
previous quarter; Provided, moreover, That said directors 
shall furnish satisfactory evidence of the actual establish- 
ment and successful operation of such department, and 
that the total sum so appropriated shall not exceed fi'^e 
thousand dollars per annum. 

Third — The said Dii'ectors shall exercise exclusive con- 
trol over such department and the teachers thereof, but 
it shall be their duty to make a special annual report to 
the Common Council of the citj of New Orleans, and also 
a similar report to the Slate Superintendent of Public 
Education, during the first ten days of the month of Jan- 
uary, showing in detail the condition of such department 
under their charge, the number of pupils admitted and 
left, the time of their continuance therein, and the actual 
expense and the money received for the support of the 
same. 

Fourth — Whenever the number of graduated pupils 
shall exceed the number of representative districts in 
New Orlea,ns, the Superintendent of Public Education 
slialljUpon apphcation being made by the difterent parishes 
distribute the excess among the parishes of the State in 
such proportion as he may deem just and equitable. 



Ad ftSi'pplevienlarij i ronstituling Slate Ahmnal Hriiool, 
No. 155, Approved March 10, 1860. 

Sec. 108. — The Normal School Department organized 
on the, third dajr of April, 1858, and now in successful >^omiai achooJs 

in city of Hew 

operation in the l'"irf>i District of the city of New Orleans, Orleans for 

' training of 

is hereby constituted and designated a State Normal female teacher?, 
School for the instruction and practical training of female 
teachers for the free public schools, and other educational 
institutions of Louisiana. 

Said Normal School shall be open to applicants from 
every portion of the State who shall possess the qualifi- 
cations of age, moral character, and mental culture pre- 
scribed by the Directors thereof, and who shall have de- 
clared their intention to adopt teaching as a profession 
to be exercised within the State of Louisiana for at least 
two years after they shall have received appropriate cer- 
tificates or diplomas from said Directors. So soon as the 
Commo'n Council of the city of New Orleans shall have 
provided the sum of ten thousand dollars to aid in the 
erection of a suitable building, the State will contribute 
a like sum, which is hereby conditionally appropriated to 
be paid in four equal installments within two years from 
the date of action of the Common Council, on the war- 
rant of the Treasurer of New Orleans, approved by the 
Auditor of Public Accounts; and the title to said build- 
ing and the site thereof, shall be exclusively in the State 
of Louisiana; Provided, That the Normal School therein 
accommodated shall be designated and organized in con- 
formity to the provisions of the first and second sections 
of the act to which this is supplementary; and that the 
Directors thereof shall provide for the education of fort^^- 
eight pupils, to be selected by the Governor, and ap- 
pointed annually; said pupils being entitled to remain in 
the school for two years, and to be educated free of charge 
for tuition, the State not paying the fifty dollars, as pro- 
vided in the act to which this is supplementary, for any 
one of the forty-eight pupils so appointed. 

The Directors of the State Normal School shall an- 
nuaUy Inrnish the State Superintendent with an abstract 



;iiruiDi^ 



54 

of the names, ages, residences, and qualifications of the 
graduated pupils of said school, and fi'oni time to •time, 
with sucb other information as he may require. 

NORMAL DEPARTMENT. FOR EDUCATION OF MALE 
TEtNCHERS in STATE SEMINARY OF LEARNING. NE.\R 
ALEXANDRIA, LOUISIANA. 

Siju] lU-i. Act (providing for Beueliciarv Cadets) No. loi, ^iarc)i 
28, 1867, ameudatory of Section 10, of Act 98, of 18(30, aud of 
Section 1, of Act 63, of 1860. 

Each parish in the State shall ha\'e the right to delegate 
Normal dep<ai- to thc State Seminary of Learning and Military Academy, 

Lueni iu state , ■ p ^ i i i i 

Seminary of to rouiam lour ycars, unless sooner graduated, a number 
of bonefieiary cadets corresponding with the number of 
representatives to which such parish is entitled in the 
House of Representatives, according to act approved 
March 4, 1859, entitled an act to apportion the represeu- 
tation in the Senate and House in the Gfeneral Assembly 
of Louisiana, according to the second census, made in 
1858, under the eighth and sixteenth articles of the consti- 
tution; that the Police Jury of each parish, and the Board 
of School Directors of the city of New Orleans, respec- 
tively, shall, at a regidar meeting, to bo held at least 
twenty days prior to the first Monday of Sejitember, elect 
such a number of beneficiary cadets as said parish or 
city may be entitled to as aforesaid, of such age and 
qualifications as may be prescribed by the Board of Su- 
pervisors of said Seminary, and cause the cadet or cadets 
so selected to report in person at the Seminary on or be- 
fore the said first Monday of September; Provided, That 
^uch cadets as are now actually attending the Seminary 
from any parish, or fi-om the city of New Orleans, shall 
i)e included iu the number to which said parish or city is 
entitled; and provided further, That in case of any va- 
cancy in the delegation of any parish or of said city, an 
election to fill the same shall be held at the first meeting 
of said Jury or Board of Directors, after notice shall have 
been given of said vacancy by the Superintendent of said 
Seminar^', and the cadets so elected shall be entitled to 
admission into the Seminary at such time as the board of 
supervisors shall prescribe; and jjrovided fw'ther, That 
the selection of said beneficiary cadets shall be made 



5/^ 

froni among those who have not themselves, or whose 
parents have not the means of paymg their expenses, 
which facts shall appear by the certificate of the presi- 
dent of said jury or board of directors; and that said 
beneficiaries whose education is thus provided for shall 
be required at the close of their term at said institution 
to pursue the occupation of teaching- school within the 
State for two years thereafter, and shall l^e required to 
report such facts to the Superintendent of said institu- 
tion; that the sum of four hundred dollars be and the 
same is hereby annually appropriated for two years to 
maintain and educate each of said beneficiary cadets, , ' 
payable quarterly, on the thirty-first day of March, the 
thirtieth day of June, thirtieth day of September, and 
the thirty-first day of December, to the treasurer of said 
institution, upon the warrant of the Governor, and that 
this act shall take effect from and after its passage. 

SPECIAL PROVISIONS FOR THE FREE EDUCATION OF 
INDIGENT YOUNG MEN. 

In Centenary College, Jackson, Louisiana. 

Sec. 105. Acts Nos. IIC and 271, approved March 13 and 14, 1855. 

It shall be the duty of the Faculty of Centenary Col- 
lege to have at all times in the institution, and to educate cejjtenarv 
gratuitously, ten indigent young men, to be designated college. 
by the Governor of the State. 

The college shall be subject to visitation by a committee 
of the Legislature, and whenever the trustees shall fail 
to perform any duty required of them by the law, or 
whenever they shall establish a chair of theology or make 
sectarian dogmas any part of their course of study, then, 
and in either of the above cases, the bond heretofore 
given by them to the State shall be due, and the Treasurer 
shall proceed to collect it, with legal interest from the 
time of such forfeiture. 

The Board of Trustees of said college shall, after the 
year eighteen hundred and fiftv-five, receive from each indigent stu- 
Congressional district three indigent students, free from ^^^^^' 
charge for tuition, in addition to the number of indigent 
students now required by law to be educated in said 



University of 
Louisiana. 



06 

college; said iudig-ent students to be nominated by the 
Governor of the State; Provided, That no more than 
twelve students shall at any one time be domiciliated 
within the walls of said college under the provisions of 
this section. Each pupil so received shall be entitled to 
four years tuition, and no indigent student to be admitted 
in said college before he has arrived at his thirteenth 
year. 

In University of Louisiana, Xev- Orleans. 

Sec. 106. Act (relative to ITniversity) No. 320, March 13, 1855. 

The faculties of the University may admit, free of 
charge, such number of indigent young men of the 
State, of good abilities and correct moral deportment, as 
they may deem expedient. 

FREE PASSAGE OF CHELDEEN OVER PUBLIC FERRIES 
AND ROADS. 

Act No. 162, of October 17, 1868. 

Sec. 107. (1). The free right of passage or conveyance 
Free Passage of ovcr all the public fcrries, bridges and roads (except the 
pubiic^i^rries ferries on the Mississippi river), which are rented out by 
and roads. ^.j^^ State or parish, or over which the State or parish 
exercise any control, or for which license is paid or toll 
exacted, is hereby granted to all children on foot attend- 
ing free public schools, and no toUs or fees shall be de- 
manded or exacted from said children by the keepers or 
attendants of said ferries, bridges or roads in their pass- 
age to or from school, between the hours of seven o'clock 
A. M. and nine o'clock A. M,., and four o'clock P. M. and 
sis o'clock P. M. ; Provided, That on Sundays and school 
holidays, no scholar shall have the right to cross such 
ferries, bridges or road.q on terms different from those of 
any ordinary passenger. 

(2). This act shall have-effeet from and after the estab- 
Lf 3SS63 oi pv.b- lishment of free public schools throughout the State, and 
licierries. jj, ^-^^^^ ^^^ apply to any lessee of a public feny whose 

contract or lease was made previous to the date of this 

act. 



fit 

l)viii ^mwi 2 f#' dd .Ho. 114, ofi^^'mU Mo^nk % 1860, 

Sko, 108. (2). The foilowhlft pi'operty shall be exempt 
I'roiii tiixfllion ; " _ ^' -'^- '" '•'■• •'■ * ferlUcatlonai 

J buildings ex- 

■' ■' Colleges, school hotiseSj and other build- empt from tax- 
ings for the purpose of educatioii, and their furniture, 
apparatus and equiiinients, and the lots thereto appur- 
tt-nant and used therewith, so long- as actually used for 
that pui'pose only. * * '^' * * * 
8 



ation. 



RULES AND REGULATIONS 



FOR THE 



GOVERNMENT OF SCHOOLS 



AND 



BY THE 

STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION, 

STATE OF LOUISIANA, 

Mui i iiriiiir ii w i i i iiiin BM»a»«»BBW»MBWwawgBa«^^ 



MEMBERS OF THE STATE BOARD OF EDUCATION 



FOXi THE 



STATE OF LOUISIANA 



THOMAS W. CONWAY, Pkssix^ekt, 

R. C. RICHARDSON, 

E. S. STODDARD, 

R. K. DIOSSY, 

JAMES McCLEERY, 

R. C. WYLY, 

J. B. CARTER, 

W. ROLLINSON, Seceetaey. 

pi^TicE— No. 166 JuLTA Steeet, New Obleans, 



RULES AND REGULATIONS. 



THAPTEE I. -GEADES— BRANCHES OF STTTDY. 

RuLr 1. — The different grades of schools in the State of Louisiana 
shall be designated as Primary, Grammar, High and Normal 
Schools. 

Rule 2. — In the Primary Schools there shall be taught the rudi- 
ments of reading, .writing, spelling and arithmetic. In the Gram- 
mar Schools there shall be taught reading, writing, arithmetic, 
English grammar, geography and history of the United States; and, 
where practicable, vocal music and drawing. 

EuLE ?>. — The Primary and Grammar Schools shall contain four 
grades of departments, known as First and Second Primary, 
and First and Second Grammar departments; but in sparsely set- 
tled districts of country, the Primary and Grammar Schools may 
be united at the discretion of the local boards. 

Rule 4. — The High Schools shall be for the education of all 
children who are competent to pursue the branches taught therein. 



CHAPTEE II.— TEEMS AND SCHOOL SESSIONS. 

Rule 5. — The scholastic year shall commence on the first Monday 
in September; and in every school district there shall be kept, for 
at least twenty-four weeks in each year, at such times as the local 
board may deem most convenient, a sufficient number of schpols 
for the instruction of all the children who may legally attend public 
schools therein. 

Rule 6. — There shall be daily sessions in all the schools, Satur- 
days, Sundays and holidays excepted. These sessions shall be regu- 
lated as to their duration and intermissions by the District Boards, 
but it is hereby recommended that the sessions, exclusive of recess, 
shall not exceed five hours each day. 



u 

(r\\h\'fm in, T■:KA^|iNAiMOX^^, 

.iitut.E i. — A_ pvibiic exaniinaliori rtf all the fjcijools shall take pkr(i 
at least once in each year; besides which nil ihe classer; in the 
High and Nuvmal Schools shall ])e examined, in wvitiug-, in each 
branch of stntly when it is ecinpleted. <v 



CHAPTER IT VVCATIOXS AKP HOLIDAYS. 

RiTLi: 8. — The schools shall be closed from the twenty-fifth of De- 
cember to the first of January, inclusive; on all thanksgiving or 
fast days authorized by the State or General Crovernraent, and on 
all Saturdays throtighout the year, and on such other days as may be 
directed bv the District Boards. 



CHAPTER Y.— TEACHERS. 

Rule 9. — Teachers are required to be at their respective rooms at 
least ten minutes before the time for opening each session, and shall, 
in a daily register to be kept by the principal, record their names 
and hour and minute of their axiival, and any teacher failing- to 
comply with this rule shall be reported by the principal as tardy. 

ErLE 10. — They shall open school punctually at the appointed 
time, devote themselves during school houi'S exclusively to the in- 
struction of their pupils, maintain good order, and strictly adhere to 
the course of study and the use of the text books. 

ErrxE 11. — It shall be theii' duty to practice such discipline in their 
school as would be exercised by a kind and judicious parent in his 
family, always fii'm and vigilant, but prudent. Thej' shall endeavor, 
on all proper occasions, to impress upon the minds of their pupils 
the principles of morality and virtue, a sacred regard for truth, love 
to God, love to man, sobriety, industry and frugahty. But no 
teacher shall exercise any sectarian or political influence in the 
schools. The free schools of this State are open to all without 
regard to rehgious belief, and, while recognizing the Bible as the 
source of all true religion, and while its public reading in the schools 
is earnestly recommended, yet should objection be made thereto by 
any of the parents or guardians of children attending, such reading 
shall be omitted. 



m 

BuLE 12. — Tiiey shall see that the pupils under their charge dis- 
tinctly uuderstand and faithfully observe all the rules relating to 
pupils. 

KuLE 13. — They shall attend carefully to the ventilation and 
temperature of their school rooms. 

Rule 14. — Any teacher who may be absent from school on ac- 
count of sickness, or other necessity, must cause immediate notice 
of such absence to be given to the Directors. Teachers absent from 
their places, without satisfactory cause, for three successive days, 
may be considered as having resigned. 

KuLE 15.— No teacher shall resign without giving two weeks' writ- 
ten notice to the President of the Board or Sub-Director, in de- 
fault of which, all compensation due for one half-month may be 
forfeited. 

KuLE 16. — The salary of teachers shall be deducted 2^'>'o rata for 
absence, except in cases of duly attested illness. 

EuLE 17.~No teacher shall be employed in the public schools who 
does not hold a certificate of qualification from the State or Divi- 
sion Superintendent. 

Rule 18. — Teachers shall not hold any position of higher grade 
than the one corresponding to their certificates. 



CHAPTER VI.— PEINCIPAL TEACHERS. 

Rule 19. — The principal teachers shall keep a register, in which 
they shall record the name, age, birth place, residence and date of 
admission of each pupil for the first time entered in the public 
schools, and also the name and occupation of the parent or guardian. 

Rule 20. — They shall also make a daily record of the pupils ad- 
mitted, present, absent or tardy (provided that no pupil shall be 
considered as enrolled after five consecutive days' absence), and at 
the close of each term they shall file the same in the office of the 
Secretary of the District Board, and at the close of the school year 
shall forward two certified copies of said recoi'ds to the Division 
Superintendent, one of which shall be forwarded to the State Board. 

Rule 21. — The principal shall have a general supervision of the 
grounds, buildings and appurtenances of the school, and shall be 
held responsible for any want of neatness or cleanliness on the 
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pi'etnises', whenever any repairs ai'e needed he feliall g-ive notice 
thereof to the President of the District Board. 

Rule 22. — Each principal shall examine the classes of the assist- 
ants as often as practicable, withont neo^lecting the pupils vnider his 
immediate charge. 

Rule 23.— No distinction shall be made by any Board of School 
Directors by which female teachers shall receive less pay than is 
allov/ed to males, when the services rendered are equal. 



CHAPTER VII.— CONCERNING DISCIPLINE. 

Rule 24. — All teachers are required to maintain strict order and 
discipline in their schools. Any neglect of this requirement will be 
considered good cause for dismissal. In maintaining order teachers 
are hereby authorized to employ any proper means which may be 
necessary to secure a compliance with their commands to the j)upils, 
and in the use of which they will receive the full countenance and 
support of the District Board. 

Rule 25. — All teachers will be held to a strict accountability as to 
the manner in which they shall use the authority herein delegated, 
and upon complaint of severity of punishment, each case shall be 
adjudged upon its own merits, the teacher being subject to dismissal 
if the Board decide it to be demanded by the circumstances. 

Rule 26.^ — Those teachers who are most successful in maintaining 
the order and discipline of their pupils without the use of corjjoral 
punishment, other qualifications being sufficient, shall be awarded 
by the Board a higher degree of appreciation, and receive the pre- 
ference over all others in promotions and appointments. 

Rule 27. — Principals shall be permitted, without interference on 
the part of any member of the Board, except on the recommendation 
of the Superintendent, to arrange the details for the internal govern- 
ment of their schools according to their own method, provided such 
method is not inconsistent with the general regulations of the 
schools. 

Rule 28. — The principals shall be required, within one week after 
the commencement of each term, to have the programme of their 
daily exercises posted in the school room in a conspicuous place, 
and shall transmit a copy of the same to the President of the Dis- 
trict Board, and one to the Division Superintendent. 



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CHAPTER VIIL— PUPILS— ADMISSION, ATTENDANCE AND ABSENCE. 

Ru?,E 2'). — Children applying for admission into the public schools 
are lequired to furnish all the necessary text books and stationery 
used in their classes. 

Rule 30. — No one having been a pupil in one school shall be 
admitted into another during the same scholastic year, without pre- 
senting to the principal a certificate of honorable discharge from 
the former school. 

Rule 31. — No pupil shall be allowed to depart from school before 
the usual time, unless sick, or on account of some other pressing 
emei'gency, of which the teacher shall be the judge. 



CHAPTEE IX.— DEPOETMENT OF PUPILS. 

Rule 32. — The pupils must, on all occasions, be obedient to their 
teachers and polite in their intercourse with each other. They must 
be diligent in study, prompt in recitation, and observe propriety of 
deportment during the recesses, and in coming to and going from 
school. 

Rule 38. — Cleanliness in person and clothing is required of every 
pupil, and repeated neglect or refusal to comply Avith this rule shall 
be sufficient cause of suspension from school. 

Rule 34. — Any pupil who shall willfully destroy or injure any 
property of the public schools shall be requii'ed to pay the amount 
lost thereby, and on failure to do so may be suspended from school. 

Rule 85. — Any pupil guilty of disobedience to a teacher, or of 
gross misconduct, may be suspended by the principal, written notice 
of which, stating the cause, shall be immediately given to the parent 
or guardian, and to the District Board. 

Rule 86. — Any pupil suspended from school by virtue of any of 
the above rules, can be restored only on such conditions as the Board 
of Directors shall determine. 



CHAPTER X, —SCHOOL DIRECTORS. 

RuIjE 87.— The Secretaries of the District Boards of School Direc- 
tors shall, in addition to the regular reports required of them by 
]§w, to t-heiy rggpegtiye Division Superintendeiits, m^ke, in connect 



tion therewith, full and complete reports of all school lands in their 
districts, the amount and condition of the same, and any changes 
that may occur therein by sale, rent, or otherwise, and shall make it 
their especial care to see that such lands are not trespassed upon, or 
in any way laid to waste, and wiU make such other reports as the 
State or the Division Superintendents may at any time direct. 

Rule 38. — If, in any ward of any parish, an organization cannot 
be effected for school purposes, through lack of suitable persons to 
be appointed as school directors or otherwise, such ward shall be 
merged into the ward next most contiguous, forming one school 
district therewith, the Superintendent of the Division designating 
with what contiguous ward it shall be merged, and the Board of 
School Directors of the ward to which such unorganized district is 
joined, shall assume charge of the same, until such time as said ward 
can be satisfactorily organized. 

Rule 39. — The constitution of the State of Louisiana declares 
that " all children of this State, between the ages of six and twenty- 
one years, shall be admitted to the public schools or other institu- 
tions of learning sustained or established by the State, in common, 
without distinction of race, color or previous condition." In accord- 
ance with this provision every District Board and teacher shall admit 
any child entitled to admission to any of the public schools estab- 
lished in any city, parish, ward or town under authority of law. 



Office State Board or Education, 
New Orleans, April 8, 1870. 

The foregoing rules and regulations were this day adopted by a 

unanimous vote of the Board. 

T. W. CONWAY, 

President of Board, 
William Rollinson, 

Secretary of Board. 



APPENDIX. 



L— SCHOOL FUNDS IN STATE TREASURY. 
CURRENT SCHOOL FUND. 

This fund was first created by act No. 200, approved March 19, 
1857, and now consists: 

1. Of the two mill tax, as provided in the fifty-seventh sectioD of 

the foregoing compilation, and is estimated at a maximum 
of about $460,000. 

2. Of ninety per cent, of the poll tax as provided in the fourth 

(5th) section of act No. 114, approved March 9, 1869, esti- 
mated at $36,000. 

3. Of amount accruing from the license of the Louisiana Stale 

Lottery Company, article 5, section 1, act No. 25, of 1868, 
$40,000. 

Section 2 of the first act above mentioned requires that the current 
school fund shall be used for the support of public schools, and that 
the surplus of receipts over expenditures for any one year, shall be 
appropriated to the support of such schools during the ensuing year. 

The appropriation out of this fund, for 1869, is $250,000. 

Sections 57 and 58, of the foregoing compilation, define the Audi- 
tor's duties in relation to said fund; sections 21, 29, 55 and 58, 
those of the Treasurer. 

FREE SCHOOL ACCUMULATING FUND. 

The Free School Accumulating Fund was created by act No. 265, 
approved March 14, 1855, and is derived from — 

1. The interest on the vested proceeds of school lands (1211 bonds, 

representing $1,193,500) annually, $71,610. 

2. The interest on bonds belongmg to the "Free School Fund," 

remaining due after payment to townsl^ips. 

3. The receipts from sales of sixteenth sections. 

4. The ten per cent, tax on estates descending to foreign heirs, and 

otlier funds received in ty^st for free schqol purposes, 
(See ^§(3tion §9 pf Compilatiqu), ' ^ - , - - -^ 



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The Auditor and Treasurer are required to invest such funds, 
vdth. the Governor's sanction, in stocks, bonds of the State, or bonds 
of the consolidated city of New Orleans, bearing six per cent, inter- 
est, and hold said investment sacred for the accumulation of a fund 
sufficient to produce, by the dividends derived from it, aii amount 
equal to that required annually for the support of fi'ce public schools. 

Section 2, of act Xo. 200, of 1857, repeals other provisions of this 
act, and those of act No. 181, of 1855. As to such investment and 
the interest thereon, see act No. 182, of March 19, 1857, ("in rela- 
tion to certain debts of the State"); sections 1, 2 and 3, in lieu of 
section 7, repealed: see .section 2, of act No. 48, of March 6, 1858; 
and sections 8, 9, 10, 11, 12 and 13, of act No. 182, of 1857; and 
linally, act No. 26, of March 12, 1859. 

Section 13 and act A"o. 26 provide that the receipts constituting 
the "Free School Accumulating Fund," shall not be mingled with 
any other moneys in the Treasur}^, and that the Auditor and Treas- 
urer shall annually report to the Governor the amoimt belonging to 
said fund, and invest it in airy of the bonds receivable by the State, 
as securities for the circulation of the banks established under the 
Free Banking Law. 

Section 12 makes the Secretary of State and the State' Treasurer 
joint custodians of the Free School Bonds, and the Auditor the 
collector of the interest coupons thereto attached. 



II— STATE SEMDTAEY OF LEAENIXG AND MILITAEY ACADEMY. 

ESTABLISHED XEAK ALEXANDRES, LA. 

Act for Organizarlon and GoTemment, No. 228, of March Lj, 1S58 — as subse- 
quently amended, and now in force. 

Section 1. (As re-enacted by section 1, act No. 98, approved 
March 7, 1860). The "State Seminaiy of Learning," estabhshed 
near the town of Alexandria, in the parish of Eapides, shall be here- 
after designated as ''The Louisiana State Seminary of Learning 
and Military Academy," and shall be under the direction and control 
of fourteen supervisors, who shall be a body corporate, under the 
style and title of the "Board of Supervisors of the Louisiana State 
Seminary of Learning and Military Academy," with the right, as 
sijch, to use a CQmmon seal, and who shall be capablG in la^ to 



VeceiVe all donations, subscriptions and bequests in trust for said 
Seminavj'^ and Academy, and to recover all debts which ma^'^ become 
the property of said Seminary and Academy, and to sue and be 
sued ill courts of justice; and in general to do all acts for the benefit 
of the Seminary and Academy' which are incident to bodies cor- 
porate. 

Sec. 2. (As re-enacted by act No. 14, approved February 14, 
18w). The Governor of the State shall be ex officio President of the 
Board of Supervisors, and the Chief Justice of the Supreme Conrt, 
the Superintendent of Public Education, and the State Engineer 
shall be e.r officio members of said Board. The remaining- ten mem- 
bers thereof shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the 
advice and consent of the Senate, for four years; and they shall con- 
tinue to exercise the duties of their office until their successors are 
qiialified, and shall be removed by the same power and in the same 
manner as provided for in their appointment. The Governor shall 
select ten members, as follows: three from the parish of Eapides, two 
from the parish of Orleans, and five from the remaining parishes; 
Provided, That not more than one member shall be selected from any 
one of the said remaining parishes. 

Said Board shall elect one of the members from Rapides as Vice- 
President, to serve in the place and absence of the Governor; the 
three members from the parish of Kapides shall constitute an Execu- 
tive Committee, to be convened by the President or Vice President, 
for the transaction of such urgent business and important business 
as, in the opinion of the President or Vice President, cannot be 
delayed till a meeting of the Board of Supervisors can be convened; 
and the proceedings of the Executive Committee shall be submitted 
to the Board of Supervisors for approval or disapproval at the first 
meeting of the said Board subsequent to the meeting of the Execu- 
tive Committee. The Board of Supervisors and the Executive Com- 
mittee shall hold their meetings at any point designated by the 
President or Vice President of the Board; Provided, That one meet- 
ing shall be held annually at the State Seminary and Military Acad- 
emy at the time of the commencement exercises of said Academy. 

Sec 3. (Act No. 98, March 7, 1860, as modified by foregoing 
second section, 1867). The Board of Supervisors shall have stated 
meetings at such times as the President or Vice President of said 
Board shall deem necessary to convene them, a majority of, the 



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Vv'liole Board constituting a quorum for the transaction of business, 
but any Supervisor who shall fail to attend two consecutive meet- 
ings shall be deemed and considered as refusing to act as such, and 
upon such failure to attend being notified to the Governor, he shall 
proceed to the appointment of his successor, in the same manner as 
hereinbefore prescribed ; Provided, That if such failure be occasioned 
by sickness or temporary absence from the State, the provisions of 
this J section shall not apply thereto; Provided, hoivever, That any 
four members of the board, together with the President or Vice 
President, shall be a sufficient quorum for the transaction of 
business. 

Sec. 4. (Act No. 98, March 7, 18G0, amending section 5 of act 
of 1858). The Board of Supervisors shall have power to engage a 
superintendent and other professors, and all other officers necessary' 
for conducting the literary, financial and civil concerns and interests 
of the said Seminary and Academy, and to remove and displace the 
same at pleasure; to fijc and regTilate the salaries of the professors^ 
and all other officers, tuition fees, and all other charges ; to establish 
rules for the good government and discipline of the students; to 
prescribe the duties of all officers, servants, and others; to confer 
diplomas, upon the recommendation of the superintendent and 
faculty, on students for proficiency in any branch of science or 
department of learning; and in general to make all rules and 
regulations which may be deemed necessary for the proper govern- 
ment of the said Seminary and Academy, and for promoting the 
objects for which it was founded; but nothing in this act shall be 
construed as obligating the State to pay any debts contracted by the 
Board of Supervisors, in case they should at any time exceed the 
appropriations made for the support of said Seminary and Academy. 

Sec. 5. (6th of act No. 228, March 15, 1868). The Board of 

Supervisors shall, at theii' first meetipg, elect a secretary, who shall 

record, attest, and preserve their proceedings, and a treasurer, wh(j 

shall give bond for the faithful performance of his duties, and in 

such sum as shall be determined by the Board. 

Note.— Sections 7, 8, 9 and 10 of act of 1858, refer to the original board of 
trustees, and the first board of supervisors, exclusively, except as to the following 
provisions, which are still in force : 

Sec. 6. It shall be the duty of the Board of Supervisors, imme- 
diately after their organization, to prescribe the course of studies to 



be pui'sued at the Seminary, and the number of professoijs, and to 
draw up a project of the system of instruction so adopted. 

Sec, 7. The Board of Supervisors shall be charged with the preser- 
vation and repair of the buildings of the Seminary, and the care of 
the grounds and appurtenances. 

Note. — Sections 3, 11, '12 and 13 of the act of 1858 have been repealed by acts 
of 18G0, '66 and '67. 

Sec 8. (6th of act No. 98, of March 15, 1860). In the course of 
study pursued at the said Seminary and Academy, the Board of 
Supervisors shall cause instructions to be given in the military 
branches of science; the students shall be called cadets, and shall 
compose a military corps, under the command of the superintendent 
and such other professors as may be assigned to that branch of 
instruction. They shall constitute a guard to all public property, 
arms, or munitions now there, or which may hereafter be assembled 
there; and the superintendent shall receipt for all svich property, 
arms, or munitions, and shall obey all orders relative to their preser- 
vation or delivery, as he may receive from the Governor of the State. 

Sec. 9. (7). The Governor of the State shall cause to be issued to 
the superintendent a commission as colonel, and to such other pro- 
fessors as may be assigned to command, commissions as majors, 
captains, or lieutenants, according to the strength of the command; 
Provided, That such commissions shall not entitle the holders to an}^ 
rank in the militia of the State, or to any claim whatever to compen- 
sation other than what is attached to their positions as professors. 

Note. — See, in this connection, act No. 202, of March 14, 1860, "providing 
for the establishment of a 'central State arsenal,' in connection with the Semi- 
nary," etc., and act No. 15, of February 19, 1867, "requesting the Secretary of 
War to revoke his order forbidding the usual military exercises at the Seminary, 
and to permit their resumption, as has been done at similar institutions in other 
States." 

Sec 10. (8th of act No. 98, of 1860). The reasonable expenses of 
the Supervisors, in going to and attending the meetings of the 
Board, shall be paid by the State; and it shall be the duty of the 
Board of Supervisors to set forth in their annual report the amount 
of such expenses. 

Note.- — The remainder of this section has been repealed. 

Sec 11. (10th of act No. 98, of 1860). Proviso: The beneficiary 
cadets (in the State Seminary) shall be placed on a footing of per- 
fect equality with the paying cadets in said institution; and it shall 
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be ths duty of said Board of Supervisors to report to the Legislature 
the esacfc costs incurred iu supporting a cadet. 

Note. — The tenth section of the act 98, of 18G0, in so far as it provided for 
peneficiary Ciidets, vras amended by the first section of act No, (13, approved 
March 7, 18G6, and this fii-st section "«-as re-amended and re-enacted by act No. 
131, approved March 28, 1867, which said act appears hereinbefore as section 103 
of the compilation. 

Sec. 12. (Section 2, of act No. G3, of March 7, 1866). The State 
Librarian is directed and required to turn over to the superintend- 
ent of said institution copies of any books of which there may be 
dupHcates in the Hbrary of the State, for the use of the " Louisiana 
State Seminary and Military Academy," taking therefor the receipt 
of said superintendent, which shall be filed in the office of the State 
Librarian as his vouchers for said books, when called upon to pro- 
duce or turn over tbe same. 

Sec. 13. (Section 2, of act No, '162, of March 28, 1867). No 
gambKng house or drinking saloon, or store for the barter or sale of 
any kind of nierchandise whatever, shall be established within two 
miles of said institution. 

Sec. 14. (Of act No. 228, approved March 18, 1858). The Board 
of Supervisors shall at all times conform to such laws as the Legis- 
lature may, from time to time, enact for their government, and the 
said Seminary shall in all things and at all times be subject to the 
control of the Legislature; and the said Board of Supervisors shall 
make an annual report to the Legislature during the first week of 
the session, embracing a full account, of the disbursements, and a 
general statement of the condition of said Seminary. 

SEMTXARV Fr:\D. 

(See Article 136, of Constitution of 1845; Article 138 of that of 1852, 
and Article 145, of that of 1864. j 

This fund is vested in the same manner as the " Free School 
Accumulating Fund," under act No. 182, of March 19, 1857, already 
referred to. It consists of one hundred and thirty-eight bonds, 
representing |138,000, bearing sis per cent, interest per annum. 
(See Auditor's Eeport of January 1, 1869.) 

The appropriations for the re-organization and support of the 
Seminary, in 1866, 1867 and 1869, have been as follows: 



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Act No. 63, of March 7, 1866. 

Interest on fund fur 1863, 1861: and 1865 $25,800 

For repairs and refitting of building, outhouses, etc 5,000 

For renewal of library, apparatus, etc., destroyed or lost 

during war ' 5,000 

For maintenance of 52 beneficiary cadets, at $300 15,600 

For salary of secretary, traveling expenses of supervisors, 

stationery and incidentals 1,000 



Total for 18G6 $52,400 

Act No. 13], of March 28, 1867. 
For maintenance of 98 beneficiary cadets, at $100 $39,200 

Act No. 153, of March 28, 1867. 
For defraying expenses of supervisors 1,000 

Act No. 162, of March 28, 1867. 

For additional repairs to buildings and improvement of 

grounds 5,000 

For enlarging' the library and philosophical apparatus 5,000 

Act No. 119, of March 25, 1867. 

Interest on fund for 1862 and 1866 16,380 

Total for 1867 .$66,580 

Act No. 73, of March 6, 1869. 

For the erection of three professors' houses $15,000 

For repairs to buildings as now erected 5,000 

For the erection of additional outhouses 5,000 

For purchase of additional philosophical apparatus and 

library books 5,000 

For traveling expenses of board of supervisors for year 1869 1,000 

^c^iVo. 139, 0/ Jlia^/ 25, 1869. 

Interest on fund for 1869 8,220 

For expenses of 98 cadets one year, at $40 per month, 39,200 

Total for 1869 $78,420 

Payable to treasurer of Sepainary on wairaut of the Governor, '- 



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III.— UNIVEESITY OF LOUISIANA. 
IN NEW OKLEANS. 

This University, per act No. 81, of March 3, 1860, is under the 
control and supervision of eleven administrators, of which body the 
Governor, Chief Justice of the State and the Mayor of New Orleans 
are ex officio members, the remaining eight being appointed every 
four years by the Governor, by and with the advice and consent of 
the Senate. The administrators receive no compensation for their 
services. 

The powers and duties of administrators are defined in section 2 
et seq, of act No. 320, approved March 15, 1855. Of the four depart- 
ments or faculties, of which the University should be composed, 
according to said act, and the 143d Article of the constitution of 
1864, but two have been organized, viz : those of Law and Medicine. 
(See Art. 142, of constitution 1868). 

The appropriations in 1866 and 1867 " for the rehef of the Uni- 
versity," have been as follows : 

Act No. 130, March 22, 1866. 

For repairs of buildings and to maintain the University $25,000 

Act No. 182, of March 28, 1867. 

For fitting up Hbrary, lecture and professors' rooms, and com- 

pleting repairs 3,000 

Total .$28,000 



rV.— INSTITUTIONS OF LEARNING GENEEALLY. 
Act No. 261, approved March 14, 1855. 

Section 1. The president and trustees of any institution of learn- 
ing- established in the State of Louisiana, which is or may be here- 
after incorporated as a bod^^ pohtic, in conformity with the consti- 
tution and laws of the State, who may wish so to do, can deposit in 
the treasury of the State of Louisiana, all sums of money intended 
aolely for the uses and pui-poses of such institutions of learning; 
and all sums so deposited shall be invested in the bonds or obliga- 
tion^ of the ^tate of Loiiisiana or of f-b^ T^i^ited Sitatfs, md \\xp 



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interest accraing thereon, as realized, shall be paid over to such 
corporation, or again invested as they may desire. 

Sec. 2. Should any endowment be made, either by donations 
inter vivos or mortis causa, to establish a professorship, in any insti- 
tution of learning in the State duly incorporated, on the principal 
being deposited in the State Treasury, the same shall be invested, 
and the interest as realized shall be paid over as stipulated in the 
preceding section; and it shall be the duty of the Auditor of Public 
Accounts and the State Treasurer to make the investments to the 
greatest advantage and interest of said institution. 

MISCELLANEOUS APPEOPEIATIONS, ETC., FOR THE BENEFrr OF EDUCATION. 

Act No. 156, of March 22, 1866. ' 

For purchase of 2666 copies of Spencers's English Grammar 
for gratuitous distribution throughout the State (from 
Current School Fund) $2,00u 

Act No. 184, of March 28, 1867. 

For repairs to Poydras College, parish of Pointe Coupee, (from 

Current School Fund) $2,500 

Act No. 154, of March 28, 186t. 

Lands belonging to the State laboratory at Mount Lebanon, 
Bienville parish, donated to trustees for the use and benefit 
of Mount Lebanon Female College 

Act No. 163, of October 19, 1868, 

For Third District Indigent Orphan School, Greatmen street, 
New Orleans $2,500 



v.— CONSTITUTION OF J868, TITLE YH. 

PUBLIC EDUCATIO>f, 

Article 135, The Genei-al Assembly shall establish at least one 
free public school in every parish throughout the State, and shall 
provide for its support by taxation or otherwise. All children pf this 
^fia,|p, bf^twfipn the ag-es of six (6) and tweaty-one (21) yeays, b| 



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be admitted to the public schools or other institutions of learning 
sustained or established by the State, in common, without distinction 
of race, color or previous condition. There shall be no separate 
schools or institutions of learning established exclusively for any race 
by the State of Louisiana. 

Akt. 136. No municipal corporation shall make any rules or regu- 
lations contrary to the spirit and intention of article one hundred 
and thirty-fiA-e (135). 

Art. 137. There shall be elected by the qualified elect>>rs of this 
State a Superintendent of Public Education, who shall hold his 
office for four years. His duties shall be prescribed b}^ law, and he 
shall have the supervision and the general control of all public 
schools throughout the State. He shall receive a salary of five thou- 
sand dollars per annum, paj^able quarterly, on his own warrant. 

Art. 138. The general exercises in the public schools shall be 
conducted in the English language. 

Art. 139. The proceeds of all lands heretofore granted by the 
United States, for the use and support of. public schools, and of all 
lands or other property which may hereafter be bequeathed for that 
purpose, and of all lands which may be granted or bequeathed to 
the State and not granted or bequeathed expressly for any other 
purpose, which may hereafter be disposed of by the State, and the 
proceeds of all estates of deceased persons to which the State may 
be entitled by law, shall be held by the State as a loan, and shall 
be and remain a perpetual fund, on which the State shall pay an 
annual interest of six per cent., which interest, with the interest of 
the trust fund deposited with this State by the United States, under 
the act of Congress, approved June 23, 1836, and the rent of the 
unsold lands, shall be appropriated to the support of such schools,. 
ami this a|jpropriation shall remain inviolable. 

Akt. 140, No appropriation shall be made by the Greneral Assem- 
bly for iht; support of any private school or any private institution 
of learning whatever. 

Art. 141. One-half of the funds derived from the poll tax herein 
provided for shall be appropriated exclusively to the support of the 
free public schools throughout the State, and the University of New 
Orleans. 

Art. 142. A university shall be eatablished and maintained in the 
QJty of New Orleans. It shall be composed of a Ifiw, a niediqal ^A\d 



&, collegiate depai'tment, each with appropriate faculties. The 
General Assembly shall provide by law for its organization and 
maintenance; Provided, That all departments of this institution of 
learning shall be open in common to all students caj)able of matricu- 
lating. No rules or regulations shall be made by the trustees, facul- 
ties or otlier officers of said institution of learning, nor shall any 
laws be made by the General Assembly violating the letter or spirit 
of the article under this title. 

Aet. 143. Institutions for the support of the insane, llie education 
and sujDport of the blind and the deaf and dumb, shall always be 
fostered by the State, and be subject to such regulations as may be 
prescribed by the General Assembly. 



VI.— UNITED STATES DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION. 

AN ACT TO ESTABLISH A DEPARTMENT OF EDUCATION, APPROVED MARCH 2, 

1867. 

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Bepresentatives 
of the United States of America in Congress assembled. That there 
shall be established, at the city of Washington, a department of 
education, for the purpose of collecting such statistics and facts as 
shall show the condition and progress of education in the several 
States and territories, and of diffusing such information respecting 
the organization and management of schools and school systems 
and methods of teaching, as shall aid the people of the United 
States in the establishment and maintenance of efficient school sys- 
tems; and otherwise promote the cause of education throughout the 
country. 

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That there shall be appointed by the 
President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a com- 
missioner of education, who shall be entrusted with the management 
of the department herein established, and who shall receive a salary 
of four thousand dollars per annum, "and who shall have authority 
to appoint one chief clerk of his department, who shall receive a 
salary of two thousand dollars per annum, one clerk who shall 
receive a salary of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, and one 
clerk who shall receive a salary of sixteen hundred dollars per an- 



num, which saict cierkjj shell be siibjej^t to the appointing and re; 
moving power of the commissioner of education. 

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the 
commissioner of education to present annually to Congress a report 
embodying the results of his investigations and labors, together 
with a statement of such facts and recommendations as will, in his 
judgment, subserve the purpose for which this department is estab- 
lished. In the first report made by the commissioner of education 
under this act, tliere shall be presented a statement of the several 
grants of land made by Congress to promote education, and the 
manner in which the several trusts have been managed; the amount 
of funds arising therefrom, and the annual proceeds of the same, as 
far as the same can be determined. 

Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the commissioner of pub- 
lic buildings is hereby authorized and directed to furnish proper 
offices for the use of the department herein established. 

CIRCULAR LETTRR BY COMMISSIONER OF EDUCATIOX. 

The undersigned desires to obtain, as early as practicable, accu- 
rate but condensed information of the designation, history and 
present condition of every institution and agency of education in 
the United States, and of the name, residence and special work of 
ever}^ person in the administration, instruction and management of 
the same. Any response to this circular in reference to any institu- 
tion, agency or subject included in the following schedule, addressed 
to the Department of Education, Washington, D. C, and endorsed 
" official," is entitled, by direction of the Postmaster General, to be 
conveyed by mail free of postage, and wiU be thankfully received 

bv 

(Signed) HENRY BAENARD, 

Commissioner of Education, Washington, D. C. 



SCHEDULE OF INFOEMATIOX SOUGHT RESPECTING SYSTEMS, IX3TITUTI0NS AND 
AGENCIES OF EDUCATION. 

A — General condition (of district, %dllage, city, county and State), 
Territorial extent, municipal organization, population, valuation, re- 
ceipts and expenditures for all public purposes. 

B — System of public instruction. 



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C — Incorporated institutions, and other schools and agencies of 
education, 

/. — Elementary cr Primary Education. 

(Pubhc, private and denominational, and for boys and girls.) 

II. — Academic or Secondary Education. 

(Institutions mainly devoted to studies not taught in the elemen- 
tary schools, and to preparation for college or special schools. ) 

III. — Collegiate or Superior Education. 

(Institutions entitled by law to grant the degree of bachelor of 
arts or science.) 

IV. — Professsional, Special, or Class Education. 

(Institulions having special studies and training, such as — 1, 
theology; 2, \a,w, 3, medicine; 4, teaching; 5, agriculture; 6, architec- 
ture (design and construction); 7, technology — polytechnic; 8, 
engineering (civil or mechunical); 9, war (on land or sea); 10, busi- 
ness or trade; 11, navigation; 12, mining and metallurgy; 13, draw- 
ing and painting; 14, music; 15, deaf-mutes; 16, blind; 17, idiotic; 
18, juvenile offenders; 19, orphans; 20, girls; 21, colored or freed- 
men; 22, manu.tl or industrial; 23, not specified above — such as chemis- 
try and its applications, modern languages, natural history and 
geology, steam and its applications, pharmacy, veterinary sur- 
gery, etc. ) 

V. — Supplementary Education. 

(1, Sunday and mission schools; 2, apprentice schools; 3, evening 
schools; 4, courses of lectures; 5, lyceums for debates; 6, reading 
rooms — periodicals; 7, libraries of reference or circulation; 8, gym- 
nasiums, boat and ball clubs, and other athletic exercises; 9, public 
gardens, parks and concerts; 10, not specified above.) 

VI. — Societies, Institutes, Museums, Cabinets and Galleries for the 
Advancement of Education, Science, Literature and the Arts. 

VII. — Educational and other Periodicals. 

VIII. — School Fund and Educational Benefactions. 

IX. — Legislation (State or Municipal) respecting Education. 

X. — School Architecture. 
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XL — Penal and Charitable Institutions. 

XII. — Churches and other Agencies of Religious Instruction. 
XIII. — Reports and other Publications on Schools and Education. 
XIV. — Memoirs of teachers and Promoters of Education. 
XV. — Examinations (competitive or otherioisej for Admission to 
National or State Schools, or to Public Service of any kind. 

THOMAS W. CONWAY, 
Superintendent of Public Education, 

State of Louisiana. 



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